The difference between abduction and adduction comes down to direction: Abduction is movement away from your body’s midline. Adduction is movement toward that midline.

Saddle joints have two basic types of movement, known as flexion-extension and abduction-adduction. Flexion and extension are opposite movements, but they’re easy to visualize. When you bend ...

I certainly do after long periods of sitting at my desk. But did you know this tightness can sometimes result in a lack of ...

The thumb motions are flexion, extension, abduction, adduction, circumduction, opposition, rotation and apposition. All motions are customarily described as though the patient were erect ...

Key fact Flexion and extension are a pair of opposites; abduction and adduction are a pair of opposites. Circumduction – this is where the limb moves in a circle. This occurs at the shoulder ...

Your shoulders have the ability to move more than most joints. Your shoulder range of motion is, basically, how far you can move each shoulder in different directions without major joint pain or ...

COUES' proposition is, that flexion of the forearm upon the rmmerus produces flexion (adduction ... and conversely: extension of the forearm causes extension (abduction) of the hand.

The hand features an innovative mechanism that allows two degrees of freedom in the thumb (adduction/abduction and flexion/extension) to be independently controlled by a single actuator ...

knee extension/hip adduction, knee extension/hip abduction). All exercises were performed at a position of 60° knee flexion. Three trials lasting 5 s each were performed for each of the three ...

"In your shoulder, you can combine abduction, adduction, flexion and extension and produce a movement called circumduction. Whee!" Mann said, swinging his arm in a circle. "Do you know how many ...

Ever heard the words abduction and adduction in relation to your workouts? These two similar-sounding terms describe opposite movements that are key to improving strength, mobility, and injury ...