Kinesiology 2241A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Sagittal Plane, Transverse Plane, Standard Anatomical Position

• School: Western University
• Department: Kinesiology
• Course: Kinesiology 2241A/B
• Professor: Thomas Richard Jenkyn

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Anatomical position - the reference position for the human body agreed by anatomists, biomechanists, doctors, etc. For segment motion, the anatomical position may not be convenient for your analysis. For each joint or body position, you decide what the neutral position is. This is the segment or joint position where the angle is de ned as zero degrees. Set the axis , must be clear about it. Right down the middle between your eyes. Frontal (or coronal, like a crown, cuts you front to back) Cuts you in half in the stomach, top from bottom. The planes are all 90 degrees from eachother. Your appendicular skeleton moves, the planes move. Each plane has one axis, it is the line that is at right angles to the plane. This is known as the planes normal vector. Transverse plane: internal-external rotation axis ie. The ml axis runs left to right (or opposite) through the body. Flexion-extension of the knee, hip, shoulder, spine.