The shoulder and hip joints are both ball and socket joints. A ball and socket joint is a type of synovial joint that allows movement in almost every direction. A ball and socket joint is made up ...

A big project has brought the former Ball & Socket Manufacturing Company back to life as a spacious and inventive art center. “It’s sort of a playful interpretation of abstraction,” Lydia Blaisdell, ...

Your new hip is a ball and socket joint where the thigh bone (femur) meets the pelvis. A healthy hip has layers of smooth cartilage that covers the ball-shaped end of the femur and socket-part of the ...

Hip dysplasia is when the ball and socket of your hip joint don’t fit together as they should. Usually, the ball-shaped end of your upper thigh bone (femur) fits neatly into a socket in your pelvis ...

The take-off knee extends when a high-jumper takes off (the other knee is flexed). Ball and socket joints also allow flexion and extension. Flexion of the shoulder joint occurs when the humerus ...