RE: [HAPS-L] The Great Adduction Debate

["Robert Stone" <stoner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

There is a great variety of possible starting positions for an action (think Pilobolus;the dancers, not the fungus) so it may be impractical to try to give a unique name to each one. The description "the arm coming into a flexed position from an abducted position" will probably have to do. Students learn more from kicking these ideas around than from memorizing clean definitions.

There is very little that we do or say that is either perfect or unique, anatomical description included. Students should probably find this out early on.

Also, while I'm on this rant, the XYZ planes are real, not imaginary and so are plastic skeletons.

Bob Stone

________________________________

From: HAPS-L-owner@xxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Teri Trendler
Sent: Thu 1/26/2006 6:55 PM
To: HAPS-L@xxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: pejarrell@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [HAPS-L] The Great Adduction Debate



Dearest Hapsters-
A colleague stopped me in the hall with a puzzled look on his face.  He
wanted to know how to tell students the difference between adduction
(where arms come toward body on the frontal plane ala jumping jacks)
and adduction (when the arms are extend out horizontally from shoulders
and are brought to meet each other in front of body)...well they are
both adduction aren't they?  But the cornerstone of anatomy is that
every term is perfect and unique! lol
Shouldn't we distinguish betweenst them with some adjective such as
lateral adduction versus anterior adduction?
Anyone care to opine?
Teri

==========================================
To manage subscription,send email from the
subscription address to
imailsrv@xxxxxxxxxxx and in MESSAGE (1)

To unsubscribe from HAPS-L,
put :     unsubscribe HAPS-L,

(2)To subscribe from a different address,
put :    subscribe HAPS-L  your_full_name    
=========================================