Muscles Overview Flashcards
This system helps regulate body temperatures/ Hold structure to the body
Muscular system
Muscles that are controlled by will
Voluntary, Striated, Skeletal
Muscles that function without will
Involuntary, Non striated, Smooth
The capacity of the muscles to react and receive stimuli
Irritability(reactivity), excitability(sensitivity)
The ability of the muscles to contract/shorten, excerting force
Contractility
The ability of the muscles to stretch
Extensibility
What protein makes up 50% of muscle tissue
Myosin/ Actin
Where is the sarcolemma and what is it
Beneath the fascia, where the muscles are organized and the myofibrilis is found
The shortest of abductor muscles is
Pectineus
Neurotransmitter
Chemical messengers of the body
Aerobic cellular respiration
Makes energy by replenishing ADP from ATP (Krebs cycle makes ATP- breaking down sugar in body)
ATP
Gives energy for contractions. Comes from food and oxygen.
Oxygen debt causes
more fatigue because less energy is being produced.
Slow twitch, Slow contraction time, good resistance to fatigue
Type 1 fibers
High velocity contractions that happen for a short time, explosive
Type 2 B fibers
AKA muscle cell. The contractile, functional unit of the muscle tissue
Long , cylinder shaped, wormlike structures that can run the length of the entire muscle
Muscle Fibers and what they look like
The outerlayer of muscles connecting the adjacent ribs
External intercostals
What causes most muscular dystrophies
Genetic disorders
The strongest of all 4 quad muscles
Vastus Lateris
The long, slender muscle originating on the inferior pubic ramus
Gracilis
What is an isometric contraction
When the muscle contracts, but length does not change. (ex: pushing against a brick mall)
Isotonic contraction
When the muscle contracts and there is a change in the length of the muscle
Eccentric contraction
In an isotonic contraction the length of the muscle increasing(not contracting)
Cocentric contraction
In an isotonic contraction the length of the muscle decreasing(the act of contracting)
Muscles that are only found in the heart
Heart/Cardiac muscle
Conscious will of movement is governed by the
Central nervous system
Muscle type fastened to bones, skins, muscle and make up fleshy areas of the body
Voluntary muscles
-Helps relieve common tissue dysfunctions like Sprains + Spasms.
-Helps activity and circulation of blood, lymph, and nerves.
Benefit of massage on the Muscular system
The system responsible for the act of breathing, moving blood/urine, and transporting food through the digestive tract
The muscular system
Elasticity
The tissues ability to return back to the normal resting length
Where are the nuclei that produce the enzymes and proteins necessary in muscle contractions
Within muscle fibers
The Connective tissue covering around the Muscle cell/Fiber
Endomysium
Located beneath the connective tissue in the sarcolemma
Cell membrane
Myofibrils
Helps make up muscles and are made up of sarcomeres
Fascia refers to
Connective tissue
Organizes tissues into groups, surrounds each individual muscle, creates muscle bundles and surrounds every fiber
Fascia
What connects muscles to bones
Tendons formed by fascia
Fibrous coverings of bones in which tendons intertwine with.
The Periosteum
Combination of muscle tissue and its related connective tissue
Myofascial
The muscular system anchors
Lymph, Blood vessels, Nerves, Organs
Epimysium-covers muscle, Perimysium- splits into fibers, Endomysium- within fibers.
is the order of the fascia from ___ to _____
superficial to deep
Connects muscles to tendons, tendon to bones, bones to bones
Connective Tissue
Neuromuscular junction
The meeting point of the motor nerve and the muscle cell
Motor unit
The motor nerve and all the muscle fibers on controls
Changes chemical energy into mechanical energy
Muscle
Nerves impulse from brain/spinal cord to a motor neuron, to neurotransmitter which moves it to the neuromuscular junction.
how a Movement happens
Threshold stimulus
The minimum stimulus needed to make muscles contract