Pivot Joints And Pivot Joints

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Pivot joints are found in your neck and your elbow and only allows rotation whereas a hinge joint can be found in your elbow, knee and ankle and allows flexion and extension. Both joints are uni-axial but are made up of different bones, pivot joints being made up of irregular bones and hinge joints are made up of long bones. They are both different to look at for example, a pivot joint is a ring around a peg where as a hinge joint is a cylinder in a troth. Both joints can be used I sport for example a pivot joint can be used when turning your head to breath in swimming and a hinge joint can be used for kicking a ball in football this shows us that hinge joints allow larger ranges of movement whereas pivot joints only allow small movements like turning your head. Both hinge joints and ball and socket joints allow flexion and extension although ball and socket joints also allow adduction, abduction, rotation and circumduction. Hinge joints are uni-axial but ball and socket joints are multi-axial. Ball and socket joints are spheres in concaved balls but hinge joints are cylinders in …show more content…

Ball and socket joints are multi-axial whereas gliding joints are uni-axial. Ball and socket joints look like a sphere ball in a concaved bowl and gliding joints just look like two flat surfaces. Ball and socket joints are made up of long and flat bones and gliding joints are made up of short bones, an example of a ball and socket joint is the shoulder or the hip and an example of a gliding joint it the spine the feet and the hands. Gliding bones can be used when walking on a balancing beam and ball and socket joints can be used when bowling the ball in cricket showing us that gliding bones allow small movements yet ball and socket joints allow large

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