SHOULDER COMPLEX WRIST AND HAND COMPLEX

Sternoclavicular joint Radiocarpal joint

✓ Type of joint: Synovial saddle
✓ Attachments/Parts: Sternal end of the
clavicle and manubrium of the sternum
✓ Motions: Protraction/Retraction,
Elevation/Depression, Posterior rotation
Acromioclavicular joint
✓ Type of joint: Synovial plane
✓ Attachments/Parts: Acromial end of clavicle
and acromion of scapula
✓ Motions: Protraction/Retraction,
Elevation/Depression, Upward/Downward
rotation
✓ Type of joint: Ellipsoid
✓ Attachments/Parts: Radius and articular
disc/ concave, Scaphoid, lunate, triquetrum /
– convex
✓ Motions: Flexion-extension; Abduction-
adduction
✓ Orthosis for the joint: The volar wrist cock-
up orthosis

Glenohumeral joint
✓ Type of joint: Synovial ball and socket
✓ Attachments/Parts: head of humerus and
glenoid fossa of scapula
✓ Motions: Flexion/Extension,
Abduction/Adduction, Medial and lateral Midcarpal joint
rotation ✓ Type of joint: Synovial Gliding joint
✓ Attachment/Parts: Scaphoid. Lunate,
Triquetrum, Trapezium, Trapezoid, Capitate,
ELBOW COMPLEX Hamate
✓ Motion: Flexion-extension; Abduction-
Humeroradial/Humeroulnar joint
adduction
✓ Type of joint: synovial hinge joint
✓ Orthosis for the joint: Push up thumb brace
✓ Attachments/Parts: humerus, ulna, radius
✓ Motions: flexion & extension

Proximal radioulnar joint

✓ Type of joint: synovial; pivot joint
✓ Attachments/Parts: convex radial head and
the slightly concave radial notch of the ulna
✓ Motions: pronation & supination

Distal radioulnar joint

✓ Type of joint: Synovial pivot joint; uniaxial
✓ Attachments/Parts: ulnar notch of the distal
Carpometacarpal joint (thumb)
radius
✓ Type of joint: Saddle
✓ Motions: Pronation and supination of the
✓ Attachments/Parts: trapezium ?????
forearm
✓ Motion: Flexion-extension; Abduction-
adduction; circumduction; opposition
 ✓ Orthosis for the joint: Push up thumb brace HIP COMPLEX
Pubic symphysis joint

✓ TYPE: Amphiarthrodial Joint

✓ ARTICULATION: Between left and right

pubic bones with an articular disk in
between

✓ MOVEMENT: Move a little when a woman

give birth to her chil
Metacarpophalangeal joints ✓ ORTHOSIS: Pelvic Brace AM-PES-05
✓ Type of joint: Ellipsoidal
✓ Attachment/parts: Metacarpals, phalangeal
✓ Motion: Flexion, extension, abduction,
adduction, circumduction
✓ Orthosis for the joint: Joint blocking orthosis

Lumbosacral joint

Interphalangeal Joint ✓ TYPE: Amphiarthrodial Joint

✓ Type of joint: Hinge
✓ Attachment/Parts: Proximal phalangeal, ✓ ARTICULATION: Between L5 & S1
Distal phalangeal
✓ MOVEMENT: Flexion and Extension
✓ Motion: Flexion (lots) Extension (minimal)
✓ Orthosis for the joint: Dynamic Capner

Sacroiliac joint

✓ TYPE: Diarthrodial Joint

✓ ARTICULATION: Between sacrum and 2

ilium

✓ MOVEMENT:
1) anterior-posterior rotation around a
medial-lateral axis in a sagittal plane;
2) abduction-adduction around an anterior-
posterior axis in a frontal plane; and
3) medial rotation-lateral rotation around a
vertical axis in a transverse plane

✓ ORTHOSIS: SacroLoc Back Brac


HIP JOINT “Acetabulofemoral joint”
✓ TYPE: Ball and Socket joint
✓ ARTICULATION: Acetabulum of pelvis
and Femoral head
✓ MOVEMENT: Flexion/ Extension
Abduction/ Adduction
Medial/ Lateral rotation
✓ ORTHOSIS: RCAI Hip Orthoses Abduction
Orthosis
KNEE COMPLEX
KNEE JOINT
✓ The largest and most complex joint of the
body
✓ TYPE: Synovial hinge joint
✓ ARTICULATION: Formed by articulation
between patella, femur, and tibia
✓ Main Action:
Flexion
Extension
Medial and lateral rotation (small degree
only)
✓ Consist of three joints within single synovial
cavity:
Inner side: Medial tibiofemoral joint
Outer side: Lateral tibiofemoral joint
Intermediate: Patellofemoral joint
✓ Inner side: Medial tibiofemoral joint
Between medial condyle of:
Femur
Medial meniscus
Medial condyle of the tibia
Intermediate: Patellofemoral joint
✓ Outer side: Lateral tibiofemoral joint
Between lateral condyle of:
Femur
lateral meniscus
lateral condyle of the tibia
Intermediate: Patellofemoral joint
✓ Outer side: Lateral tibiofemoral joint
Between the:
Patella
Patellar surface of femur
Tibiofemoral Joint
✓ TYPE: A double condyloid joint
✓ Action:
Sagittal: Flexion & Extension
Transverse: medial/lateral (internal/external)
Frontal: abduction, adduction
✓ Movements: Extension/Flexion, Lateral and
Medial Rotation
PATELLOFEMORAL JOINT
✓ Type of joint: Diarthrodial plane joint
✓ Attachment: Between the patella and
intercondylar groove
 ✓ One of the most incongruent joints in the ANKLE AND FOOT COMPLEX
body.
Involves: ANKLE JOINT
Climbing
✓ Type of joint: Synovial hinge joint
Walking on an incline
And other knee movements ✓ Articulation:
The tibia and fibula are bound together by
TIBIOFIBULAR JOINT strong tibiofibular ligaments.
Body of the Talus fits snugly into the
✓ Proximal and Distal Tibiofibular joints mortise formed by the bones of the leg.
refers to two articulations: ✓ Action: Plantarflexion/dorsiflexion
Tibia
Fibula
SUBTALAR JOINT

PROXIMAL TIBIOFIBULAR JOINT ✓ Type of joint: synovial plane joint

✓ Articulation: between two tarsal bones
✓ Articulation: (posterior talar articular surface and
Head of Fibula posterior calcaneal articular surface)
Lateral condyle of the tibia ✓ Motion: Eversion/inversion
✓ Supporting structures
Lined with hyaline cartilages and contained
within a joint capsule. ✓ TRANSVERSE TARSAL JOINT
Anterior/Posterior superior tibiofibular
ligaments ✓ Chopart’s Joint
Lateral collateral ligaments ✓ A compound joint composed of 2 synovial
Biceps femoris joints
✓ Types:
Talonavicular
DISTAL TIBIOFIBULAR JOINT Calcaneocuboid
✓ Articulation:
Fibular notch of distal tibia TALONAVICULAR
Fibula
✓ Type: Synovial saddle joint
✓ Supporting structures ✓ Articular surface: Navicular articular surface
Interosseous membrane of head of talus, proximal/posterior articular
Anterior and posterior inferior tibiofibular surface of navicular bone.
ligaments ✓ Movement: Supination - Pronation
Inferior transverse tibiofibular ligament

✓ ORTHOSIS: CALCANEOCUBOID
✓ Type: Synovial saddle joint
✓ Articular surface: articular surface for
cuboid on calcaneus, proximal/posterior
articular surface of the cuboid
✓ Movement: Supination - Pronation
TARSOMETATARSAL JOINT

✓ Lifranc’s Joint
✓ 3 synovial plane joints
✓ Articulation: Cuboid, Lateral cuneiform,
Intermediate cuneiform, Medial cuneiform,
Metatarsal bones
✓ Motion: Flexion/Extension

METATARSOPHALANGEAL JOINT
✓ Type of joint: Synovial condyloid joint
✓ Articulation: Metatarsal heads, bases of
proximal phalanges
✓ Movement: Flexion, Extension, Abduction,
Adduction and, Circumduction

INTERPHALANGEAL JOINT
✓ Type of joint: Synovial hinge joint
✓ Articulation: Head of proximal phalanx,
base of middle phalanx, head of middle
phalanx and, base of distal phalanx.
✓ Movement: Flexion/Extension

ANKLE AND FOOT ORTHOSIS

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JOINTS ON
UPPER
EXTREMITY AND
LOWER
EXTREMITY

Submitted by:
ABELLA, KLARISSE ISABEL
CAS, LADY MARIE
GAYO, ARB
LAYGO, LANDER
RONQUILLO, AIRA

Submitted to:
Marlon D. Palma
John Christopher P. Examen