Home
Wiki User
Answered 2012-02-19 22:00:35
It isn't. The hip socket is deeper than the shoulder socket. The shoulder socket is shallow to ensure a broad range of motion of the arm. The deep hip socket is for stability of the leg.
Your Answer
Related Questions
Both joints are enarthrodial (ball and socket joints), but the hip is more stable than the shoulder. This is out of necessity because the hip must support the weight of the body, while the shoulder does not have to. The cup in the hip that the head of the femur sits in is deeper than that of the shoulder holding the head of the humerus. This means less movement for the hip, but more stability.
The hip joint has a stronger labial rim combined with the ligament and capsule. The ball sits deeper in the socket than the shoulder. Shoulder joints have more range of motion (mobility) but less stability.
The hip and shoulder are ball-and-socket joints.
Hip and shoulder are both Ball and Socket Joints
You have ball and socket type of joints, in the both shoulder and hip joints.
The hip joint is a ball and socket joint just like you shoulder!
Left shoulder, right shoulder, left hip, right hip.
Both the hip and shoulder joints are referred to as ball and socket joints.
The shoulder joint (glenohumeral) and the hip joint (iliofemoral) are both ball-and-socket joints.
the hip and shoulder are examples of a ball-and-socket joint.
it is located in the hip and in the shoulder
Your shoulder.. Your hip..
The shoulder is a ball and socket joint. The hip is also.
There are two ball and socket joints in the body, the shoulder and the hip.
The shoulder and hip joints are ball-and-socket joints.
A ring of cartilage that surrounds the acetabulum, the socket of the hip joint, is called the labrum (meaning lip). It makes the socket deeper.
Ball and socket joint, such as the shoulder and the hip
BALL AND SOCKET.Same as our shoulder.
ball and socket, shoulder or hip
the hip and shoulder(ball &socket)
At the shoulder and hip joints.
hip joint and shoulder joint
The shoulder and hip joints.
the shoulder and the hip joints
ball and socket; synovial joints
What is the fourth element of the periodic table of elements?
Asked By Wiki User
What is ROBLOX's password on roblox?
Asked By Wiki User
Asked By Wiki User
How do you get 1000000 robux for free?
Asked By Wiki User
Why is the shoulder socket deeper than the hip socket?
Asked By Wiki User
Why does rupaul wear a colostomy bag?
Asked By Wiki User
What is Hugh hefner penis size?
Asked By Wiki User
What is the timbre of the song dandansoy?
Asked By Wiki User
Ano ang kultura at tradisyon ng bansang England o inglaterra?
Asked By Wiki User
Copyright © 2021 Multiply Media, LLC. All Rights Reserved. The material on this site can not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with prior written permission of Multiply.