Functional Anatomy - Types of movement

Mr Swatter has a fly on his shoulder, the poor thing. He reaches his right hand over to his left shoulder to try and squish the fly.  Which movement is occurring at his ELBOW joint?

• Extension
• Circumduction
• Flexion
• Supination

Bob is very small. He needs to stand on his "tip toe's" to reach the cookie jar on the top shelf of the cupboard.  What is the movement of his ankles?

• Plantar Flexion
• Extension
• Dorsiflexion
• Anterior Rotation
  

Mark is sitting in a chair, legs out in front of him resting on an ottoman. His knees are.....

• Hyperextended
• Rotated
• Flexed
• Extended

Remember when Mrs. Smith was mad, she was tapping her right foot on the floor? Which best describes her ANKLE movement as her foot lifts off the floor in an UPWARD motion?

• Plantar Flexion
• Dorsi Flexion
• Inversion
• Eversion

When doing a star jump, what is the type of movement of the arms when the move outwards from the body?

• Abduction
• Adduction
• Extension
• Flexsion

When the outstanding Dustin Martin kicks a football the movement of the knee joint in the back swing, before kicking the ball is......

• Abduction
• Flexion
• Extension
• Adduction

Movement of the ankle that brings the foot farther from the shin is

• dorsiflexion.
• plantar flexion.
• inversion.
• eversion.

Moving a body part towards the midline is

• adduction.
• abduction.
• rotation.
• protraction.

Straightening parts at a joint so the angle between them increases is

• flexion
• hyperextension
• extension

Moving a body part away from the midline is 

• rotation.
• adduction.
• abduction.
• pronation.