What is the movement of the body part?
What is the movement around the axis called?
- • ROTATION: movement around the axis of a bone or body part. Movement towards the midline of the body is called medial (or internal) rotation; movement away from the midline is called lateral (or external) rotation • SUPINATION: turning the palm upwards (or an internal rotation of the foot). Figure 17 Body movements
What is lateral rotation of the body?
- • ROTATION: movement around the axis of a bone or body part. Movement towards the midline of the body is called medial (or internal) rotation; movement away from the midline is called lateral (or external) rotation.
What are the templates of anatomical movements?
- Anatomical movements are no different. They usually involve bones or body parts moving around fixed joints relative to the main anatomical axes (sagittal, coronal, frontal, etc.) or planes parallel to them. Therefore, the template of anatomical movements consists of the following (not all of them are required for every movement):
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