Body planes and axes

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How does movement occur?

  • movement takes place along a plane and about an axis

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Plane

  • is the direction in which movement takes place

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Axis

  • is the line about which movement takes place and lies at right angles to the plane

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Starting positions

  • to increase or decrease the muscle work required to maintain the position

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What actions happen in frontal plane and sagittal axis?

  • abduction

  • adduction

  • lateral flexion

  • radial and ulna deviation

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What actions happen in sagittal plane and frontal axis?

  • flexion

  • extension

  • plantarflexion

  • dorsiflexion

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What actions happen in horizontal/ transverse plane and vertical axis?

  • rotation

  • supination

  • pronation

  • inversion and eversion

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