Aryana Malekzadeh September 21st 2020

Movement Lab 1
After reading chapter one of the Grossman textbook, I felt much more aware during our first movement lab. It
was very intriguing to observe each joint of the fingers, wrist, elbow and shoulder moving separately, and then
articulating them all together; creating such a wide range of motion for our bodies to move. One thing I noticed
while doing an exploration with my wrist was that there is much more room for movement of the wrist to
towards ulnar flexion than there is radical flexion. This explains a lot because personally I have a bad habit of
over extending my wrists in ulnar flexion while dancing. Once we added in movement with the elbows as well,
I started to understand which planes of action were being used. When the wrist and elbow flex and extend, this
means that the body is moving on the sagittal plane, conversely, when a joint is moving towards abduction or
adduction, it is using the frontal/coronal plane. Finally, we added the shoulder joint, this joint is extremely
complex, as it can not only flex and extend, but it can also abduct, adduct, and rotate. This allows us to move
our entire arm in many different directions and angles, thanks to its ball and socket joint. All the joints that we
articulated in our arm during the movement lab would be considered diarthrotic or synovial joints. This means
that they are highly movable and they have a joint capsule.
 The wrist is an ellipsoidal joint; allowing movement along two axes
 The elbow is a hinge joint; only flex/extend on one plane (sagittal)
 The shoulder is a ball and socket joint; moves on three planes (triaxial)