Muscular considerations for movement Flashcards
What are major contributors to human movement?
Muscles
What muscles are under direct voluntary control?
Skeletal muscles
What are the muscle properties?
Irritability or excitability, contractility, extensibility, and elasticity
What is the ability to respond to stimulation?
Irritability or excitability
What is the ability to generate tension and shorten when receiving stimulation?
Contractility
What is the ability to lengthen ( stretch) beyond
Extensibility
What are the 3 main muscle functions?
Produces movement, maintains postures and positions, and stabilizes joints
Muscles control the ________ and ________ to the body and allows voluntary control over _________ and _____________. What is wrong if this function does not happen.
Entrances, exit, swallowing and excretion. Problems with nervous system
What do muscles support and protect?
Visceral organ and other internal tissue
Where does muscle alter and control pressure?
Within body cavities.
Muscles typically act in _________
unision
How does muscle maintain body temp?
Produced heat by shivering
What are compartments defined by?
Fascia
What are compartments commonly named by?
location
What type of fiber arrangement is most powerful
parallel ( quads)
Why do muscles typically act in unision?
It is common to be innervated by same nerve
What fiber arrangement is better for quick movement?
pennate
What are the types of parallel muscles?
Flat, Fusiform, Strap, Convergent, and Circular
What muscle is thin and broad, forces over large area?
Flat