Joints Flashcards
Define Articulation
Site where 2 or more bones meet
Function of joints
Give skeleton mobility
Hold skeleton together
Joints are classified on allowed movement
Name 3 classifications
Synarthroses - immoveable
Amphiarthroses - slightly moveable
Diarthroses - freely movable
Name 3 structural classifications
Fibrous
Cartilaginous
Synovial
Define fibrous joints
Bones joined by dense fibrous connective tissue
No joint cavity
Most are synarthrotic (immovable)
3 types
- sutures
- syndesmoses
- gomphoses
Fibrous Joints: sutures
- Rigid, interlocking joints containing short connective tissue fibers
- Allow for growth during youth
- In middle age, sutures ossify and are called synostoses
Fibrous Joints: Syndesmoses
Bones connected by ligaments (bands of fibrous tissue)
Movement varies from immovable to slightly movable
Examples:
- Synarthrotic distal tibiofibular joint
- Diarthrotic interosseous connection between radius and ulna
Fibrous Joints: Gomphoses
Peg-in-socket joints of teeth in alveolar sockets
Fibrous connection is the periodontal ligament
Cartilaginous Joints
- Bones unitd by cartilage
- NO JOINT CAVITY
- 2 types
1. Synchondroses - A bar or plate of hyaline cartilage unites the bone
2. Symphyses - Hyaline cartilage covers the articulating surfaces and is fused to an intervening pad of fibrocartilage, slight movement
Synovial Joints
All are diarthrotic (free movable)
Include all limb joints; most joints of the body
Distinguishing features of Synovial Joints
- Articular cartilage: hyaline
- Joint (synovial) cavity; small potential space
- Articular capsule
- Synovial fluid - viscous slippery filtrate of plasma + hyaluronic acid lubricates and nourishes articular cartilage
- Reinforcing ligaments - capsular, extracapsular, intracapsular
- Rich nerve and blood supply-detect pain, joint position and stretch, capillaries beds make synovial fluid
Synovial Joints: friction-reducing structures
What is a bursae?
- flattened, fibrous sacs lined with synovial membranes
- contain synovial fluid
- commonly act “ball bearings” where ligaments, muscles, skin, tendon, or bones rub together
Synovial Joints: Friction-reducing structures:
Tendon Sheath: What is this?
Elongated bursa that wraps completely around a tendon
Stabilizing Factors at synovial joints (3)
- Shapes of articular surface (minor role)
- Ligament number and location(limited role)
- Muscle tone, which keeps tendons that cross the joint taut
—-Extremely important in reinforcing should and knee joints and arches of the foot
Name the ranges of motion
- Nonaxial - slipping movements only
- Uniaxial - movement in 1 plane
- Biaxial - movement in 2 planes
- multiaxial- movement in or around 3 planes
Structural and Functional Characteristics of body joints
Look at the pictures
Movements of Synovial Joints (4)
- Gliding
- Angular movements:
Flexion, extension, hyperextension
Adbduction, adduction
circumduction
- Rotation
Medial and lateral rotation
- Special movements
Supination, pronation
Doriflexion, plantar flexion of foot
Inversion, eversion
Protraction, retraction
Elevation, depression
Opposition
What is gliding movements?
One flat bone surface glides or slips over another similar surface
Example:
intercarpal joints
intertarsal joints
between articular processes of vertebrae
Angular Movements Description
- Movements that occur along the saggital plane:
1. Flexion - decreases the angle of the joint
2. Extension - increases the angle of the joint
3. Hyperextension - excessive extension beyond normal range of motion
Angular Movements
Occur along the frontal plane:
Abdction: movement away from the midline
Adduction: movement toward the midline
Circumduction: flexion + abduction+extension+adduction of a limb so as to describe a cone in space
Rotation
The turning of a bone around its own long axis
Examples
Between c1 and c2 vertebrae
Rotation of humerus and femur
Special movements
movements of radius and ulna
Supination - rotating palms to be facing forward - hold a bowl of soup
Pronation - palms posterior -pro basketball players dribble with a pronated hand
Movements of foot:
Dorsiflexion (upward)
Plantar Flexion (down)
Pronation - flat footed
supination - high arch
inversion - turn sole medially
eversion - turn sole laterally
Picture of inversion and eversion of foot
look at picture