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In Angela Evans, "The Pocket Podiatry Guide to Paediatric Guide; Paediatrics", p.29 Fig. 2.7, it states that the motions in the transverse plane are abduction (away from sagittal plane) and adduction (toward sagittal plane).
Would someone please correct my misunderstanding as I thought that abduction/adduction were in the frontal/coronal plane as are inversion/eversion, and that medial/lateral rotation were the transverse plane.
Thanks, mark
Note; am enjoying the 'guide' as I have used it in the past as a reference only and now have the time to read it

 

Hi Mark

Depends (as with many things in life) on your point of reference. Ab/ad duction is defined from the midline of the body. So Hip abduction will be frontal/coronal plane. Foot (or forefoot) abduction will be transverse.

Unless your defining things from the midline of the foot hence abductor hallucis.

Hope this doesn't confuse things further!

 

Thanks Ian, am slightly off my face on high-dosage prednisolone (or prednisone; have to check) after a renal transplant.
Supplementary question: if a body part is say abducting from an adducted position then would it not be moving toward the 'midline' of the 'point of reference'?
Thanks again, mark