Module 6 - Muscle Force-Velocity Relationship Flashcards
What does the force-length relationship describe?
- Sarcomere or muscle behaviour at a constant length
What do most daily activities involve?
- Muscle shortening or lengthening
What describes daily activities better force-length or force-velocity relationship?
- Force-velocity relationship
What does the force-velocity relationship describe?
- Force generated by a muscle as a function of velocity under constant load (isotonic)
What is the most important dynamic property of muscles?
- Force-Velocity relationship
Is the force-velocity relationship linked to a specific anatomical structure?
- No
What does the force-velocity relationship describe?
- Muscle force under concentric isometric and eccentric muscle actions
What happens during a concentric action?
- Lift a load smaller than max
- Isometric tension generated
- Muscle shortens
- Force smaller than P0
- As load increases, velocity decreases
What happens during an eccentric action?
- Load is larger than the max
- Isometric tension generated
- Muscle lengthens
- Force larger than P0
- Absolute tension independent of volocity
What is larger? tension for eccentric action or concentric action
- Eccentric Action
What is the force-velocity relationship for concentric action?
- Force drops rapidly as velocity increases (50%Fmax, 17%Vmax)
What are the therapeutic implications of the force-velocity relationship of a concentric action?
- Muscles are strengthened at least partly based on force placed across them
- Exercise at high velocity imply muscles are contracting with low force
What is a general rule to improve strengthening with concentric action?
- Keep velocity low
What might high velocity do for concentric action?
- Improve muscle activation by CNS
What is common following eccentric action exercise?
- Muscle soreness
- INjury
What are the greatest muscle-strengthening techniques?
- Eccentric Action exercise
- Maximum Force
Why might eccentric exercise be a good option for those with breathing disorders?
- low energic cost
- High force generation
- improves muscle force generation
What issues might arise from eccentric exercise?
- Delayed Onset Muscle System (DOMS)
What must be done with eccentric exercise to limit DOMS?
- Magnitude and Duration increases gradually
What does the active force during the concentric action of a muscle depend on?
- Total number of cross-bridge connections between actin and myosin
What does the cross-bridge model account for during eccentric action?
- can account for increased force
- The proportion of attached cross-bridges increases
- cross-bridges distribution distances increase
What can the cross-bridge model not explain in eccentric forces?
- Force increase for slow stretching velocities
- energy requirements are overestimated