Joints

=Joints=

====1. Joints are where bones touch. And around the joint is muscles that pull the bones in different ways. There are many kinds of joints in different places of the body. Such as the sliding joint (in your wrist), the hinge joint (in your knee or elbow), the pivot (in your neck or spine), and the ball and socket joint (in your hip and shoulder). The ball and socket is a ball like bone in a socket it provides a big range of motion. The pivot joint is like a dumbbell and how the weights go on the rods and can pivot side to side. This bone is in your neck and spine so you can look side to side and twist around. The hinge joint is in your leg. The hinge joint can move like the hinge of a door. The hinge Joint allows your knee to bend and also straighten your leg. The hinge joint is also in you elbow. Last but not least the sliding joint in your ankle and wrist. It lets you move in every direction but not as far as a ball and socket joint. That is all the types of joints in you body!====