Planes of Movement - Types of Motion

What is another name for Frontal Plane?

• Cranial

• Horizontal

• Transverse

• Coronal

The Frontal Plane divides...

• body in half from front to back

• body from side to side

• body in half from top to bottom

How is the Sagittal plane divided?

• From top to bottom

• From side to side

• From front to back

How does the Transverse Plane divide the body?

• Top to bottom

• Side to side

• Across the room

• Front to back

What type of motions happen in the Sagittal Plane?

• ABDuction

• Flexion

• ADDuction

• Extension

What type of motions happen in the Frontal/ Coronal Plane?

• ABDuction

• Flexion

• ADDuction

• Extension

What kind of motions happen in the Transverse (horizontal) Plane?

• Flexion

• Extension

• ABDuction

• Rotation

• ADDuction

Where the 3 cardinal planes intersect each other is called Center of Gravity

• True

• False

The Sagittal Axis runs side to side

• True

• False

Flexion occurs in the sagittal plane around a frontal axis.

• True

• False