This occurs when the angle of a joint increases, for example the elbow when throwing a shot put. The take-off knee extends when a high-jumper takes off (the other knee is flexed). Ball and socket ...

The shoulder and hip joints are both ball and socket joints. A ball and socket joint is a type of synovial joint that allows movement in almost every direction. A ball and socket joint is made up ...

Ball joints act like hinges and connect the suspension control arms to the steering knuckles with a rotating, spherical stud and a socket, giving the wheels a wide range of movement -- from side ...

By consistently practicing injury prevention and mobility movements for the shoulder joint, we have the potential to have ...

A joint is any place in the body where two bones meet. Hinge joints, which include the knee, bend and straighten. Ball-and-socket joints, such as the shoulder, move in multiple ways and rotate.

The hip, which is a ball-and-socket joint at the upper thigh bone, is most likely to be fractured at its uppermost portion, known as the femoral neck. Over 300,000 people per year sustain hip ...

The congenital condition stops the ball and socket joints of the hip from developing properly. Without treatment, doctors say she would have grown up with worsening pain, limping and struggling ...