Face/Neck/Trunk Test Prep Flashcards
3 types of Muscular Tissue
- Cardiac: heart
- Skeletal: bone attachment
- Smooth: internal organs
Anatomy Structures in Skeletal Muscles
- Connective Tissue,
- Muscle,
- Tendons,
- superficial and deep fascia
- Aponeurosis
- Retinacula
Functions of Skeletal Muscles
- Thermogenesis
- Stabilization of the body
- Movement of the body
Myofilaments that create a muscle contraction
- Thin filament: actin
- Thick filament: myosin
Number of Muscles in the body
640+
3 parts of a muscle
- Belly
- Origin
- Insertion
Excitation Definition for Muscle Contraction
Neurotransmitters bind to receptor sites on the motor end plate to cause an impulse that travelers through the T tubules into the Sarcoplasmic Reticulum (SR) that releases calcium ions that travel through the sarcoplasm into the sarcomeres.
Contraction Definition for Muscle Contraction
Calcium ions come into contact with the actin within the sarcomeres that stimulates the proponents and tropomyosin to expose myosin binding. Myosin attaches to the actin (cross bridging) and creates a power stroke. This action is continually repeated as long as ATP and calcium ions are present.
Extensibility Definition for Muscle Contraction
The ability for the muscle fibers to be stretched
Elasticity Definition for Muscle Contraction
The ability for muscle fibers to return to their pre contracted state.
Where ATP is produced
Mitochondria
Anaerobic glycosis
During muscle fatigue, the body can convert glycogen to glucose
First Stage:
- Oxygen is not used
- Starts really quick and ends within 30-60 sec
- Produces lactic acid
- lactic acid can be converted to glucose
- oxygen is used (heavy breathing) to process lactic acid
Aerobic Glycosis
During muscle fatigue, the body can convert glycogen to glucose
Second Stage:
- uses oxygen to produce the same as 36 ATP molecules
- expels carbon dioxide through mitochondrial cellular respiration
- continues as long as oxygen is available.
Gliding Filament Model (Simple Definition)
Muscle Contraction
All-or-none Response
- after a nerve impulse begins, it will be conducted at maximum capacity, without fluctuations in membrane potential and without any decrease in magnitude
- if the stimulus is sufficient, the muscle fibers associated with the motor unit will contract to their fullest extent
Tendon Definition
A cord of tough fibrous connective tissue that attaches muscle to bone
Muscle Strain Classifications
- Overstretch
- Minor Tear
- Major Tear
Isometric Contraction
- no movement occurs
- muscle length remains the same
- static contraction
Eccentric Contraction
- muscle lengthens and oppose concentric contractions
Concentric Contractions
- muscle shortens
Isotonic Contractions
- dynamic contractions
- involves movement
- includes both concentric and eccentric contractions
Origin
Attachment on less moveable bone
Insertion
Attachment on more moveable bone
Belly
Wide, central portion of the muscle that contains sarcomeres
Functional Reversibility
Occurs when muscles reverse their relationship between attachment sites and muscle organs move toward insertions
Agonist/Prime Mover
- primary muscle responsible for a specific movement
- causes desired muscle action
Antagonist
Lengthens muscle when agonist performs desired action
Synergist
Assists prime mover
Neutralizer
Cancels unwanted movement at the insertion
Fixator
Muscles that act to stabilize a body part
Unarticular
Crosses 1 joint
Biarticular
Crosses 2 joints
Multiarticular
Crosses 3 or more joints
Sarcomere
Basic units of muscle contraction
Myofibril
Slender strands in muscle fibers laying side by side
Tonus
Muscle tone
Atrophy
Muscle Wasting
Sherrington’s Law of Reciprocal Innervation
The inability for a contraction to happen in an antagonist when a prime mover is contracting
Proprioceptors
Areas of the body that relay messages about where the body part is within space such as the Golgi tendon organ and muscle spindles
Pain Spasm Pain Cycle
- The cycle of responses in the muscle fibers that continues unless intervened on my external force such as massage or ice bath
- Cycle:
>Neurotransmitters initiate spinal reflex causing muscle spasm
> increase tissue damage by decreased blood and oxygen supply
> Tissue Injury
> Nociceptor Activation
> Pain stimulus to spinal cord
> stimulus to brain
Gate Control Theory of Pain
The ability for the mind to receive messages of pain and to use methods to open or close other receptors for pain
Strain
Stress/Tear on tendon
Sprain
Stress/tear on ligament
Bones of the Axial Skeleton
- Skull
- hyoid
- vertebral column
- sternum
- ribs