Points Of Motion

Question 1

What are the twelve points of motion?

Answer 1

1. Head (Capital)
2. Neck (Cervical)
3. Scapular
4. Shoulder
5. Elbow
6. Wrist
7. Hand/fingers
8. Waist
9. Hip
10. Knee
11. Ankle
12. Foot/toes

Question 2

What bones create the point of motion in the head?

Answer 2

Skull & Atlas

Question 3

What bones create the point of motion in the neck?

Answer 3

Bottom of the neck & top of the torso

Question 4

What bones create the point of motion in the shoulder?

Answer 4

Scapula & humorous

Question 5

What bones create the point of motion in the elbow?

Answer 5

Bottom of the humorous & ulna/radius

Question 6

What bones create the point of motion in the wrist?

Answer 6

Ulna/radius & carples

Question 7

What bones create the point of motion in the hand/fingers?

Answer 7

Flanges & metacarpals

Question 8

What bones create the point of motion in the waist?

Answer 8

Lumbar spine & alliums / pelvic bowl

Question 9

What bones create the point of motion in the hips?

Answer 9

Femurs & alliums/pelvic bowl

Question 10

What bones create the point of motion in the knee?

Answer 10

Femur & tibia

Question 11

What bones create the point of motion in the ankle?

Answer 11

Tibia/fibula & tarsals

Question 12

What bones create the point of motion in the foot/toes?

Answer 12

Metatarsals & flanges

Question 13

What motions occur at the point of motion in the head?

Answer 13

1. Extension
2. Flection

Question 14

What motion occurs at the point of motion in the neck?

Answer 14

1. Extension
2. Flection
3. Lateral Flection
4. Rotation

Question 15

What motion occurs at the point of motion in the scapular?

Answer 15

1. Elevation
2. Depression
3. Upward/outward rotation (overhead press)
4. Downward/inward rotation (lat pull down)
5. Anterior tilt
6. Posterior tilt
7. Protraction (forward)
8. Retraction (back)

Question 16

What motions occur at the point of motion of the shoulder?

Answer 16

1. Extension
2. Flection
3. Abduction
4. Adduction
5. Horizontal Abduction
6. Horizontal Adduction
7. Internal rotation
8. External rotation
9. Circumlocution

Question 17

What motion occurs at the point of motion at the hip?

Answer 17

1. Extension
2. Flection
3. Abduction
4. Adduction
5. Horizontal Abduction
6. Horizontal Adduction
7. Internal rotation
8. External rotation
9. Circumlocution

Question 18

What motion occurs at the point of motion at the elbow?

Answer 18

1. Extension
2. Flection
3. Internal rotation
4. External rotation

Question 19

What motion occurs at the point of motion in the wrist?

Answer 19

1. Extension
2. Flection
3. Abduction
4. Adduction
5. Internal rotation
6. External rotation

Question 20

What motion occurs at the point of motion in the hand/fingers?

Answer 20

1. Extension
2. Flection
3. Abduction
4. Adduction
5. Opposition (fingers touching thumb)

Question 21

What motion occurs at the point of motion in the waist?

Answer 21

1. Spinal Extension
2. Spinal Flection
3. Lateral Flection
4. Rotation

Question 22

What motion occurs at the point of motion of the knee?

Answer 22

1. Extension
2. Flection

Question 23

What motions occur at the point of motion at the ankle?

Answer 23

1. Plantar Flection (point toes)
2. Dorsa Flection
3. Horizontal Abduction
4. Horizontal Adduction
5. Inversion rotation
6. Enervation rotation

Question 24

What motion occurs at the point of motion in the foot/toes?

Answer 24

1. Extension
2. Flection
3. Abduction
4. Adduction
5. Opposition (alternate big toe position with the other toes smoothly)

Question 25

What muscles produce the motions at the motion point of the neck?

Answer 25

1. Extension- upper traps 2. Flection- 3. Lateral flection- 4. Rotation-

Question 26

What muscles produce the motions at the point of motion of the scapula?

Answer 26

1. Elevation- lavator scapula 2. Depression- lower traps 3. Protraction- pec major 4. Retraction- rhomboids/mid traps 5. Upward/outward rotation- lower Serratus anterior/ lower trapezius 6. Downward/inward rotation- lower rhomboid/ levator scapula/ pectoral minor 7. Anterior tilt- pec minor 8. Posterior tilt- lower traps