Dance Anatomy & Kinesiology

The Knee and Patellofemoral Joints 289 is believed to cause damage and arthritic changes to the articular surface of the knee. H ...

290 Dance Anatomy and Kinesiology and malalignment factors are believed to allow abnormal lateral excursion of the patella again ...

The Knee and Patellofemoral Joints 291 in which compression forces are low, and with care- ful attention to activating appropria ...

292 Dance Anatomy and Kinesiology Pain is classically of insidious onset and is cen- tered in the tendon just superior or just i ...

The Knee and Patellofemoral Joints 293 tant for the person to get rechecked by a physician, as in some cases a fragment of the t ...

294 Dance Anatomy and Kinesiology influenced by anatomical and biomechanical fac- tors such as the law of valgus. The law of val ...

The Knee and Patellofemoral Joints 295 Study Questions and Applications (continued) A dancer’s teacher has noted that his knees ...

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297 The Ankle The Ankle and Footand Foot CHAPTER SIX Photograph by Rex Tranter. Pacific Northwest Ballet School students. http:/ ...

298 Dance Anatomy and Kinesiology W ith this chapter we turn to the ankle and the foot. The ankle serves as the connection betwe ...

The Ankle and Foot 299 contact with the upper surface of the large tarsal bone called the talus (L. ankle, ankle bone, figure 6. ...

300 Dance Anatomy and Kinesiology in front of the navicular and are called the first, second, and third cuneiform going from med ...

301 TABLE 6.1 Summary of Joints of the Ankle and Foot Name Type of joint Movements Ankle and foot Ankle (talocrural) Hinge Plant ...

302 Dance Anatomy and Kinesiology axis for this movement is close to a frontal plane, but it deviates slightly posteriorly and i ...

The Ankle and Foot 303 primarily in a transverse plane around a vertical axis, more akin to horizontal abduction-horizontal addu ...

304 Dance Anatomy and Kinesiology horizontally anteriorly from the lateral (fibular) mal- leolus to the lateral talus and limits ...

The Ankle and Foot 305 rotate, and an ankle sprain can readily occur unless muscles (the evertors of the foot) act quickly to co ...

306 Dance Anatomy and Kinesiology of the toes would involve movement of the toes away from the second toe, while adduction would ...

The Ankle and Foot 307 In addition to protecting and dividing the muscles of the plantar area of the foot into compartments, thi ...

308 Dance Anatomy and Kinesiology can be further subdivided into the superficial poste- rior compartment and the deep posterior ...