Talk:List of movements of the human body

As it stands...

The list claims to list movements of the human body, but it only addresses voluntary joint movements. Elastic movements such as the bending of bones, voluntary movement such as of the tongue, lips or eyelids, involuntary movements such as shivering, erection of erectile tissues, visceral movement and the like should also merit consideration, shouldn't they? It isn't really my field, so I haven't done anything about it, but... JonRichfield (talk) 09:57, 2 March 2014 (UTC)

I think if we were to create that article it would be far longer, probably the best would be to have some clarification of the goal of the article, or a name change? Ping LT910001 CFCF (talk · contribs · email) 10:55, 2 March 2014 (UTC)

I have no quarrel with that. In the ledes I have hinted at the narrower scope of the articles as they stand, but not made any militant gestures along the lines I mentioned. As you say, if we were to introduce the topic as a separate article then this article would need some qualification to its title, such as "List of voluntary skeletal movements of the human body", but I didn't even think of going there for now. Name changing is not the sort of thing to do in a hurry, with or without justification, and long titles are even worse. And then there is the matter of keeping in a healthy relationship with "Anatomical terms of motion"... JonRichfield (talk) 11:46, 2 March 2014 (UTC)

We have a whole suite of articles about muscle movements and other documented human anatomy that we're in the procetss of piecing together from disparate fragments strewn across many varying articles, so I'm not too fussed about completeness while we're aggregating the information. That said, I agree the title could be more specific. What about something like "List of muscles of the human body by movement"? --LT910001 (talk) 11:32, 3 March 2014 (UTC)

I - who have a background as Medical Trainer (mix of Physiotherapy, orthopedics, and personalised competetive training) - highly recommend this Article sticks to voluntary movements of joints resp. skeletal striated muscle (slightly simplified MSS (muscular skeletal system; "Bewegungssystem/Apparat" in german)). Otherwise it will become so poorly readable/usable it will be pointless. Besides, there aren't even fix words for the movements of e.g the digestive system (other than it's contents is being mixed and pushed downwards). If such content is wished - which I don't think it is - it should be in a separate article concerning the vegetative system (mostly unaware/involuntary movements, including those who are somewhat in between voluntary and unvoluntary (Facial expressions, Tongue, Rectum, urination etc)). Besides, most - if not all - of these mostly involuntary movements are just soft tissue based, meaning they don't articulate around a joint but that it's just contraction of muscles and its passive structures. Also, I recommend that this will serve as a overview on so called Function-Groups (e.g. Hip-Flexors - muscles - sorted by priority - that pull the upper leg upwards to the torso at the hip/pelvis-femur-joint), since those are very closely connected to the voluntary joint movements. I already searched those, but besides a few - over various articles distributed ones - it's poorly documented. I'm willing to do this myself since I have the background, proper textbooks (e.g. the current edition of "Crays Anatomy for Students") etc pp., but I struggle with the syntax of tables within Wikipedia.org Anentropia (talk) 16:43, 18 May 2015 (UTC)