Cranial Midline Bones Flashcards
Midline/unpaired bones
Cranial - ethmoid, occiput, sphenoid
Facial - mandible, vomer
Motion of the midline bones
Usually rotate about TRANSVERSE axis in SAGGITAL plane, in ANTERIOR-POSTERIOR direction.
Paired bones
Cranial - parietal, temporal
Facial - inf nasal concha, lacrimal, maxilla, nasal. palantine, zygoma
Motion of paired bones
Usually around the AP axis in lateral motion (CORONAL PLANE) in EXTERNAL/INTERNAL ROTATION
Motion of SBS
Inhalation-flexion:
- sphenoid rotation, axis, direction
-occiput rotation, axis, direction
Sphenoid:
TRANSVERSE axis
Alae move ANTERIORLY
SBS motion is SUPERIOR
Occiput:
TRANSVERSE axis
Occiput move Posterior
SBS motion is SUPERIOR
SBS motion Cranial Flexion
SBS moves SUPERIOR Occiput - inf/post Sphenoid - ant/inf Ethmoid - same as occiput Palantine - ER Interpalantine suture - inf with vomer and maxillae
Ethmoid mirrors what bone’s motion?
Occiput
Vomer same as what bone’s motion?
Sphenoid
SBS and sacral motion - about what axis, in what plane and at what sacral segment
Transverse axis, thru 2nd sacral segment, in sagital plane
Sacral base moves in what direction in cranial flexion?
Also called what?
Sacral base posterior, apex anterior
Counterutation
Sacral base moves in what direction in cranial extension?
Sacral base moves anterior, apex posterior
Nutation
Ethmoid motion when SBS is in flexion is influenced by what?
sphenoid and falx cerebri
Lateral mass (ethmoid) motion during cranial flexion? Cranial extension?
Cranial flexion - external rotation
Cranial extension - internal rotation
SBS lateral strain - named for what?
Axis
*Sphenoid and occiput move in same or opposite direction?
Named for position of basi-sphenoid relative to basi-occiput
Two vertical axes.
Same direction
Basi-sphenoid shears right around vertical axis, occiput and sphenoid both rotate to the left around their vertical axes.
What is this strain pattern?
Right lateral strain