Olivia kern's 1.2 Muscular system Flashcards
Outline the characteristics common to muscle tissue
Contractility Extensibility Elasticity Atrophy Hypertrophy Excitability (controlled by nerve stimuli and fed by capillaries)
What is Contractility :
Ability to contract and generate force when stimulated by a nerve; ability to shorten.
What is Extensibility :
Extensibility: Ability to be stretched beyond the muscles normal length.
What is elasticity :
Ability to return to its original resting length after the stretch is removed.
What is Atrophy:
Decrease in the mass of muscle tissue.
What is Hypertrophy
Increase in the size of muscle tissue through increase in the number of myofibrils.
What is Excitability (controlled by nerve stimuli and fed by capillaries):
Ability to receive stimuli via electrical pulse which causes contraction of the muscle cells.
Distinguish between the different types of muscle
- Skeletal muscle: Voluntary control; striated appearance; multinucleated fibres; usually attached to skin or bone.
- Cardiac muscle: Involuntary control; striated appearance; branches of uninucleated fibres; found in walls of heart.
- Smooth muscle: Involuntary control; unstriated appearance; uninucleated fibres; lines the walls of blood vessels and hollow organs (e.g. stomach and intestines).
Annotate the structure of skeletal muscle
Define Origin:
the attachment of a muscle tendon to a stationary bone. The bone which stays stationary during a specific movement.
Define Insertion:
the attachment of a muscle tendon to a moveable bone. The bone which moves during a specific movement
Rectus Abdominis:
Excercise :
Movement:
When is it agonist:
When is it antagonist:
Exercise: Crunches (up agonist (shortening) down antagonist (lengthening))
Movement: Flexion of the spine
Spine/trunk flexion: Agonist
Antagonist: Spine extension
External Obliques:
Movement:
Excercise:
Agonist:
Antagonist:
Movement: Lateral trunk flexion
Excercise: Lateral side bends/crunches
Agonist: side flexion
Antagonist: side extension
Erector Spinae:
Movement:
Excercise:
Agonist:
Antagonist:
MOVEMENT: Trunk extension
EXERCISE Back extension
Agonist: Spine extension
Antagonist: Spine/Trunk flexion
Anterior Deltoid:
Movement:
Excercise:
when is it agonist:
when is it antagonist:
MOVEMENT: Extension, flexion, and abduction of the shoulder
EXERCISE example : Front/Lateral arm raise
Agonist: shoulder flexion
Antagonist: shoulder extension