L4.6.2: Functional Joint Classifications

• Functional Joint Classifications

  • Synarthroses
  • Ampiarthroses
  • Diarthroses
• Synarthroses

  ○ Immovable Joints

  ○ Examples:

  ■ Skull sutures.

  ■ Articulations between the teeth and the mandible

  ■ Joint found between the first pair of ribs and the sternum.
• Ampiarthroses

  ○ Slightly movable joints.

  ○ Limited movement generation.

  ○ Examples:

  ■ Joints between vertebral bones

  ■ Pubic symphysis of the pelvis

  ■ Cartilaginous joint that strongly unites the right and left hip bones of the pelvis.
• Diarthroses

  ○ Freely movable joints

  ○ Can generate various types of movements.

  ○ Examples:

  ■ Elbow, shoulder, ankle joints.