Joints in the Human Body

Now one wonders how can an unlettered person know the number of joints in the human body when there were no medical colleges in the whole of Arabia and no physician in the ancient world, and even for many centuries afterwards no one enumerated them in detail. This proves that Traditions are based on a direct inspiration to the Holy Prophet from God for the guidance of mankind. The human body is divided into the following parts: 1. the head and face 2. the neck 3. the trunk consisting of the chest and the abdomen 4. a pair of upper limbs 5. a pair of lower limbs. The bones in the head, face, neck and trunk constitute axial skeleton and are 80 in number in the adult. There are 32 bones in each adult lower limb, and 31 in each adult upper limb. Thus there are a total of 206 bones excluding the inconstant number of the small sesamoid bones. In the child there are 33 separate vertebrae in the backbone, but in the adult vertebrate column we find only 26 separate bones as 5 vertebrae of sacrum and 4 vertebrae of coccyx are fused together. Now in the books of anatomy under the chapter of arthrology, a joint is described as: “A joint expresses the relations of two or more bones to one another at their region of contact. Some bones articulate at movable joints, others at only slightly movable joints.” The 206 bones in the body are joined by three main types of joints: (1) The Fibrous Joint, (2) the Cartilagious Joint, and