Synovial joints.

• The knee, elbow and shoulder are synovial joints.
• The lubricating liquid within a synovial joint is synovial fluid.
• Synovial joints are free moving.
• Within a synovial joint, Articular Cartilage AND Synovial Fluid are present to allow for smooth movement
• Synovial Joints are the most common joints in the body. They are freely moveable and are surrounded by an articular joint capsule.​

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  Each capsule is filled with a fluid (synovial fluid) which fills the joint cavity between two adjoining bones​
• Function of a synovial joint is Allow for a high degree of movement (depending on type)​
• Examples of a synovial joint is Joints of the shoulder, elbow, wrist​.
• Synovial Joints have Synovial Fluid in the Joint Cavity that Lubricates the joint so it moves smoothly​
• Synovial Fluid is made by the Synovial Membrane ​
• In Synovial Joints the ends of the bones are covered with cartilage ​

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• Synovial Joints allow us the free movement to perform skills and techniques during physical activity.​
• Synovial joints function- allow for a high degree of movement e.g joints of the shoulder.
• saddle joints- can move back and forth and up and down e.g- thumb.
• ball-and-socket joints- possess a rounded, ball-like end of one fitting into a cuplike socket of another bone- greatest range of motion, all movement types are possible in all directions e.g-shoulder and hip joints.
• Types of synovial joints saddle joints, ball-and-socket, hinge joint, pivot joint, plane joint, condyloid joints.
• Hinge joint- slightly rounded end of one bone fits into the slightly hollow end of the other bone. one moves other bone is stationary- hinge of a door.
• pivot joint- ratational movement as the rounded bone moves around it's own axis e.g neck.
• plane joint- allow for gliding movement- fount in carpal bones in the hand.
• condyloid joints-consist of an oval-shaped end of one bone fitting into a similarly oval-shaped hollow of another bone- in joints of wrist and finger.