Identifying Joint Movements Practice

Identify the joint action being performed.

• Circumduction
• Lateral Rotation
• Medial Rotation
• Eversion

Adduction means

• Increase the angle of a joint

• Decrease the angle of a joint

• Take a limb away from the body

• Return a limb towards the body

Identify the joint action being performed.

• Extension
• Flexion
• Abduction
• Adduction

Identify the joint action being performed.

• Extension
• Flexion
• Abduction
• Adduction

Identify the joint action being performed.

• Extension
• Flexion
• Abduction
• Adduction

Shrugging your shoulder utilizes which two joint movements?

• Flexion and Extension

• Dorsiflexion and Plantarflexion

• Supination and Pronation

• Elevation and Depression

Identify the joint action being performed.

• Inversion
• Eversion
• Plantarflexion
• Dorsiflexion

Moving a part forward (thrusting the head forward).

• protraction
• retraction
• elevation
• supination

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS2-2

Touching your thumb to each finger is an example of which of the following joint movements?

• Hyperextension

• Rotation

• Opposition

• Flexion

Turning the hand so that the palm is upward or facing anteriorly (in anatomical position).

• supination
• pronation
• flexion
• dorsiflexion