Chapter 2 - Basic Exercise Science Flashcards
What is the combination and interrelation of the nervous, muscular, and skeletal systems. Functional anatomy, functional biomechanics, and motor behavior.
Human Movement System
What are the three primary functions of the nervous system?
Briefly describe each one.
- Sensory Function- changes in the environment
- Integrative Function - Analyse and interpret
- Motor Function - the neuromuscular response
What is a conglomeration of billions of cells specifically designed to provide a communication network within the human body?
The Nervous System
What is the ability of the nervous system to sense changes in either the internal or external environment.
Sensory function of the Nervous System
Define the ability of the nervous system to analyze and interpret sensory information to allow for proper decision making, which produces the appropriate response?
Integrative function of the Nervous System
The neuromuscular response to the sensory information is part of what function or system?
Motor function of the Nervous System
What is the CUMULATIVE SENSORY IMPUT TO the central nervous system (CNS) from all MECHANORECEPTORS that sense body POSITION and limb MOVEMENT?
The neuroMUSCULAR response to sensory information is part of what function or system?
- Proprioception
- Motor System
What is the Cell Body of a Neuron / What does it contain?
- Contains nucleus and other organelles, including lysosomes, mitchondia, and a Golgi complex.
What is the primary function of Dendrites in a Neuron?
- Gather information from other structures and transmit it back into the neuron.
(receive messages from other cells)
What is the Axon of a Neuron?
- A thin, cylindrical projection from the cell body that TRANSMITS NERVOUS IMPULSES TO OTHER NEURONS or EFFECTOR SITES (muscles, organs).
(Passes messages away from the cell body to the other neurons, muscles or glands.) - It is the part of the neuron that provides communication from the brain and spinal cord to other parts of the body.
What is a Neuron?
What 3 parts is it made of?
A specialized CELL that processes and TRANSMITS INFORMATION through both electrical and chemical signals. It is the FUNCTIONAL UNIT OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM.
3 main parts:
- cell body
- axon
- dendrites
What transmits nerve impulses from effector sites (such as muscles and organs) via receptors to the brain and spinal cord. Responds to touch, sound, light, and other stimuli and transmit nerve impulses from effector sites.
Sensory (Afferent) Neurons
What Transmit nerve impulses from one neutron to another.
Interneurons
What transmit nerve impulses from the brain and spinal cord to effector sites such as muscles or glands.
Example: brain tells hand muscles to let go of hot coffee cup (after interpreted it was hot from sensory neurons and communicated through Interneurons).
Motor (Efferent) Neurons
What are the two main functions of peripheral nerves and what’s the main purpose of them?
- Provide a connection for the nervous system to activate effector sites (muscles)
- Relay info from effector sites back to the brain via sensory receptors.
- -thus, providing a constant update on the relation between the body and the environment.
What is the Peripheral Nervous System (PNS)?
-cranial and spinal nerves that spread throughout the body.
What are the subdivisions of the PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM (PNS),
What ares of the body do they affect?
What are their main functions?
- SOMATIC Nervous System: nerves that serve the OUTER areas of the body and skeletal muscle, and are largely responsible for the VOLUNTARY movement.
- AUTONOMIC Nervous System: supplies neural input to the INVOLUNTARY SYSTEMS of the body (heart, digestive systems, and endocrine glands).
What are the subdivisions of the AUTONOMIC system and what are their functions?
- Sympathetic - increase levels of activation in preparation for activity
- Parasympathetic - decrease levels of activation during rest and recovery.
What are Sensory Receptors and what are the 4 subcategories it is divided into?
Sensory Receptors are specialized structures located throughout the body that convert environmental stimuli (heat, light, sound, taste, and motion) into sensory information that the brain and spinal cord use to produce a response.
- mechanoreceptors (touch and pressure)
- nociceptors (pain receptors)
- chemoreceptors (chemical interaction / smell and taste)
- photo receptors (light / vision)
What are responsible for sensing distortion in body tissues / respond to mechanical pressure and outside forces (touch, pressure, stretching, sound waves, and motion) within tissues and then transmit signals through sensory nerves.
Mechanoreceptors
like muscle spindles, Golgi tendon organs, and joint receptors like pacinias and ruffinis
What sort of thing are Muscle Spindles and GTOs?
What direction do muscle spindles run?
What are muscle spindles sensitive to?
What do they cause the muscle to do?
- Mechanoreceptors
- Run parallel to muscle fibers
- Sensitive to change in LENGTH of the muscle and the rate of that change.
- CONTRACTS the muscle to prevent over stretching and potential damage.
What sort of thing are Golgi Tendon Organs (GTOs) and muscle spindles?
What are GTOs sensitive to?
Where are GTO located?
What is the reaction when they are activated?
- MECHANORECEPTORS
- Sensitive to change in TENSION of the muscle and the rate of that change.
- Located where skeletal muscle fibers insert into the tendons.
- Cause the muscle to RELAX, which prevents the muscle from excessive stress or possibility of injury.
What sort of thing are Joint Receptors?
Where are they located?
What are they sensitive to?
How do they prevent too much stress on a joint?
What are examples?
- MECHANORECEPTORS
- Surround a joint
-Respond to extreme joint positions,
pressure, acceleration, and deceleration of the joint
- Can initiate a reflexive inhibitory response in the surrounding muscles if there is too much stress placed on that joint.
- Examples: Ruffini endings and Pacinian corpuscles
What is the functional integration of the nervous, muscular, and skeletal systems to work together and produce human movement?
Kinetic Chain