Overview of the upper extremity

JOINT

AXES
OF MOTION

SHOULDER GLENOHUMERAL
STERNOCLAVICULAR
ACROMIOCLAVICULAR
SCAPULOTHORACIC

3
3
3

ELBOW (HUMERO-ULNAR)

1

RADIO-ULNAR

1

WRIST

2

FIRST CARPO-METACARPAL

2

METACARPOPHALANGEAL (MP)

2

PROX. INTERPHALANGEAL (PIP)

1

DISTAL INTERPHALANGEAL (DIP)

1

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