Six Fundamental Movements Research Paper

There are six fundamental movements or primary movements which occur where the joints are located between the body segments. These movements are flexion (frontal plane, and shoulder) extension, abduction, adduction, rotation, and circumduction. As explained in our text, flexion is a decrease in the angle between two body segments, whereas extension is an increase in the angle between two body segments. Abduction is a movement away from the body, whereas adduction is a movement toward the midline of the body. The rotation is the circular movement of a body segment around a long axis, and can have special rotations occurring at the forearms and feet; these include pronation, supination, inversion, and eversion. Lastly, circumduction is the sequential combination of movements outlining geometric cone (p.130).
Six Fundamental Movements/ Example Exercise
 Flexion-arm curl machine, preacher curl, cable and seated bicep curls.
 Extension-leg extension, skull crusher, overhead triceps extension
 Abduction-dumbbell-lateral raise
 Adduction-hip adductor machine (when legs come together)
 Rotation-circular movement
 Circumduction-movement of a part, an extremity, in a circular direction.
Flexion movements include a decrease …show more content…
In the recovery phase of the exercise, there is a hip flexion and also a slight abduction. The knee flexion and ankle dorsiflexion are the joint movements involved. The effort phase includes hip extension and slight adduction, while the knee extension and ankle plantar flexion are the movements involved. If you use dumbbells, your client can add shoulder flexion (sagittal plane) to 90 degrees and in the recovery phase of the squat with shoulder extension or abduction during the effort phase. Some sports where more than three movements are used are tennis, backhand swing and side lunges which are flexion and