Points Of Motion Flashcards
What are the twelve points of motion?
- Head (Capital)
- Neck (Cervical)
- Scapular
- Shoulder
- Elbow
- Wrist
- Hand/fingers
- Waist
- Hip
- Knee
- Ankle
- Foot/toes
What bones create the point of motion in the head?
Skull & Atlas
What bones create the point of motion in the neck?
Bottom of the neck & top of the torso
What bones create the point of motion in the shoulder?
Scapula & humorous
What bones create the point of motion in the elbow?
Bottom of the humorous & ulna/radius
What bones create the point of motion in the wrist?
Ulna/radius & carples
What bones create the point of motion in the hand/fingers?
Flanges & metacarpals
What bones create the point of motion in the waist?
Lumbar spine & alliums / pelvic bowl
What bones create the point of motion in the hips?
Femurs & alliums/pelvic bowl
What bones create the point of motion in the knee?
Femur & tibia
What bones create the point of motion in the ankle?
Tibia/fibula & tarsals
What bones create the point of motion in the foot/toes?
Metatarsals & flanges
What motions occur at the point of motion in the head?
- Extension
- Flection
What motion occurs at the point of motion in the neck?
- Extension
- Flection
- Lateral Flection
- Rotation
What motion occurs at the point of motion in the scapular?
- Elevation
- Depression
- Upward/outward rotation (overhead press)
- Downward/inward rotation (lat pull down)
- Anterior tilt
- Posterior tilt
- Protraction (forward)
- Retraction (back)