Musculoskeletal Flashcards
What is the purpose of the musculoskeletal system
It is a combination of muscle and skeletal system.
Muscles cause movement in the body this is LOCOMOTION
Skelton protects our organs and provides support and gives body shape
What are the three types of muscles
- Cardiac muscles (in the heart)
- Voluntary muscles/skeletal muscles - attached to bones
- Involuntary muscles/smooth muscles - not attached to bones
What is purpose of Muscles
Allow us to move because they CONTRACT AND RELAX
Human body (muscle) - Name all the muscles
What is cartilage and its purpose
Rubbery tissue found at end of a bone and also found in the nose and the ear
That holds part of skeleton together
Reduces friction between joints when bones rub
What is tendons
Join muscle to bone
Very strong
When muscle contracts pulls on tendon pulls on bone
How many bones human
206
Largest bone
Femur
What is structure of bones
Hard and stiff and have joints at end which help move the bones
Body bones
Main processes of musculoskeletal
- Contraction
Muscle tissue
Work getting shorter
Pulling on bones
Eg flex muscle - contract biceps and triceps relaxes
Extend arm - triceps contract and biceps relax
- Relaxation
Return to former state
Makes muscle longer
No longer pulls on bones
- Movement and locomotion
Muscles arranged in a way
One contracts
Partner relaxes
Therefore Muscles are ANTAGONISTIC (one muscle contracts, and its partner relaxes)
Causes Two bones move at joint when one is pulled
What happens during bicep curls
Bicep contracts
Tricep relax
Push in opposite directions
Contracting the elbow
And radius
Which flexes bicep
Relaxes tricep
Tricep ANTAGONISTIC to the bicep
What is Posture
Way which we hold up our bodies in the things we do:
Sit, stand, rest or move about
The way way we carry ourselves is determined how aligned our bodies are
and which muscles are involved
The better your posture, the better body is aligned
Problems with bad posture
Headaches, lower back pain
Shoulder and upper back pain
What else affects our posture
Mass of school bag affect it to
70 percent of kids may be damaging spine
What are the Risk factors of carrying school bag
10 percent of weight
One strap
One shoulder
Incorrect packed
Incorrect fitted
Explain the roles in movement played by all the muscles in the body (name the muscle and then describe the role (a to n) of diagram
Deltoids- play a role in shoulder movement back and forth 360 movement
Pectoralis - adduction (moving of arm to mid-line of body) and forward movement of arm, rotation of arm forward across the body
Biceps the main functions are flexion a supination (outward rotation) of forearm
Obliques - external obliques on either side help rotate trunk. Internal flex towards pelvis (crunches)
Abdominals - supports trunk and holds organs. Allows movement around the trunk area
Quadriceps - used for kicking running jumping walking
Trapezius - to stabilise and move the scalpula
Triceps - holds head of humerus, adduction forward extension of arm adduction
Rhomboid - retract, elevate and rotate the scapula
Latissimus Dorsi - performs actions of upper extrememity
Hamstrings - flexes knee extends thigh at hip rotates your lower leg from side too side when knee bent
Gastrocnemius & Soleus - The main plantar flexion of the ankle joint and foot movement
What is the movement of the body called
LOCOMOTION
What are the components of the Musculoskeletal systems
- Muscles
- Bones
- Cartilage
- Tendons
5.Ligaments
Where are the smallest bones found
In the ear (only a few mm in length)
What does it mean that when muscles are antagonistic
When one muscle contracts, its partner muscle relaxes
Eg flexing bicep - bicep contracts and tricep relaxes
Relaxing arm - bicep relaxes and tricep contracts
What are 3 health issues of the Musculoskeletal system
- Rickets/Osteomalacia
- Osteoporosis
- Arthritis/Osteoarthritis
What is Arthritis
- When cartilage covering ends of bones
- At joints
- Wears away
- Joints swell
- And become very stiff and painful
- Bones rub and grind against each other
- Common in older people
What is rickets
- Disease in children
- Caused by lack
- calcium
- Vitamin D
- Phosphorous - Bones become
- soft and weak
- become bent due to weight of body on them - Prevention
- Exposure skin to sunlight = vitamin D
- Eating
- fish
- dairy products
- cereals
What is Osteoporosis
- As persons get older
- Their bones lose large amounts of
- protein
- calcium - Bones become less dense
- This loss cause
- bones become SPONGY and FRAGILE (break easily) - Prevention
- Eating foods with lots of calcium
- Excercising regularly
- Not smoking
- not drinking a lot of alcohol
What is another name for Rickets
Osteomalacia
What is another name for Arthritis
Osteoarthritis
What are the skeletal disorders
- Posture
- Bunions
- Hammer toes
What are Bunions
- A deformity that affects the BIG TOE
- can be extremely painful (get shooting pain)
- Prevention
- not wearing tight shoes/too small BIG TOE RUBS AGAINST SHOE
- or high heals (Victoria Beckham)
SYMTOMS - Shooting pain
- Deformed big toe
Treatment - Surgery - BUNIONECTOMY
- Not wearing tight shoes/too small or high heels
- CORRECTIVE INSOLES (put inside shoes) ORTHOTICS
- EXCERCISES
What is the surgery for bunions
Bunionectomy
What is Hammer Toes
- Caused by
- Tight shoes that
- Squeeze toes
- cause abnormal balance of muscles in toe
- Tight shoes that
- Symptoms
- pain at top of toe (from pressure of shoe
- formation of CORNS (calcification) at top of joins
- redness and swelling at joint where bends
- restricted motion of toes
- pain in BALL of foot at the base of toe - Prevention
- wear properly fitted shoes (not too small/narrow)
- Custom ORTHOTICS made by PODIATRIST