Ranges of Motion and Muscle Types Crossword Puzzle

QUESTIONS LIST:

• flexion : movement that decreases the angle between two body parts.
• abduction : raising your arm or leg away from the mid-line of the body.
• circumduction : movement of a body part in a circular path, like making a circle with your arm.
• supination : turning the palm upward.
• plantar flexion : bending the foot downward, as if pressing a gas pedal.
• extension : straightening a joint or increasing the angle between two body parts.
• cardiac : muscle type found only in the heart.
• prom : when a therapist moves a patient’s joint completely with no assistance from the patient.
• adduction : movement that brings the arm or leg back toward the midline of the body.
• pronation : turning the palm downward.
• dorsiflexion : bending the foot upward toward the shin.
• skeletal : muscle type that controls voluntary movement of bones.
• smooth : muscle type found in internal organs like the stomach and intestines.
• arom : the patient performs the motion with no assistance.
• aarom : the patient performs the motion with some assistance from a therapist or equipment
• origin : the fixed attachment of the muscle
• insertion : the point of the muscle that moves during a contraction
• synovial : another name for diarthrosis joints
• hinge : joint that opens in only one plane