Biomechanics - lecture 2 Flashcards
Three characteristics of skeletal muscle?
Always attached to bone, responsible for movement of body and joints, aids fluid and blood movement
What is the force that muscle contractions produced to move joints called?
Torque
How many skeletal muscles?
over 600
What % of body weight is muscle?
40-50%
What does muscle provide for body?
protection, posture, and support
how many pairs of skeletal muscles?
215 that work in cooperation
what do pair of skeletal muscles do?
perform opposite actions at joints at which they cross
What is an aggregate muscle action?
muscles work in groups rather than independently to achieve motion
what does the fiber arrangment and muscle shape do?
affect muscles ability to exert force and affect range it can effectively exhert force
what does cross section diameter affect?
Greater cross section yields greater force exhertion
what muscles can shorten the most?
the longes ones,?sartorius
what muscles are more effective in moving joints throught large ranges of motion?
longer muscles
what are the 5 fiber arrangments of skeletal muscles?
parallel, fusiform, pennate, convergent, circular
Example of a parallel muscle?
sartarious
Example of a fusiform muscle?
biceps brachii, it has two heads
Example of a pennate muscle?
extensor digitorium longus ,
What are the types of pennate muscle?
unipenate or bipennate like the rectus femorus
Convergent muscle example?
pectoralis major
Circular muscle example?
orbicularis oris
If compairing a parallel muscle to a pennate muscle, what whould produce a greater range of movement?
The parallel muscle has greater range of movement for a similar size muscle.
What is the shape of a fusiform muscle?
Spindle shaped, parallel fibers with a large cross section diameter.
Similar sized pennate VS fusiform, what produces greater range of movement?
Fusiform will have greater range of movement over similarly sized pennate
Why do pennate seem to not have the larges range of motion?
they have shorter fibers
How are pennate muscles arranged?
Short fibers arranged obliquely to their tendons, like a feather.