Test Flashcards
Ability to be stretched
Extensibility
Ability to respond to a stimulus
Excitability
Ability to become short and thick
Contrability
Ability to return to its original shape
Elasticity
Can control
Voluntary
Cannot control
Involuntary
Forms walls of the heart and contracts to circulate blood
Cardiac
Found in internal organs blood vessels and eyes
Visceral/smooth
Attached to bones and causes movement.
Skeletal
Functions of skeletal muscles
Attaches to bones to provide voluntary movement
Produces heart and energy for the body
Helps maintain posture
Protects internal organs
Ways skeletal muscles attach to bone
Tendons
Fascia a tough sheet like membrane that covers and protects the tissue
Muscle tone
A state of partial contraction
What occurs when muscles atrophy? What causes muscles to atrophy
Shrink n muscles not being used for a long time and illness
What is a contracture
A serve tightening of a flexor muscle resulting in bending of a joint
Joints affected by contractures
Fingers wrist knees and other joint
Muscle of upper arm that flexes lower arm
Biceps brachii
Cramps, are sudden painful involuntary movement
Muscle spasm
a group of inherited disease that lead to chronic progressive muscle atrophy
Muscular dystrophy
A chronic condition where nerve impulses are not properly transmitted to muscles
Myasthenia gravies
An overstretching of injury to a muscle or tendon
Strain
A chronic widespread pain in specific muscle sites. Treatment is directed toward pain relief and muscle relaxation
Fibromyalgia
Moves the arm away from the body
Abduction
Moves the arm toward the body
Adduction
Increases the angle of the elbow and moves the hand away from the body
Extension
Decreases the angle of the elbow and moves the hand toward the body
Flexion
A circular movement around an axis such as the shoulder joint
Rotation
Circular movement at the far end of a limb
Circumduction
The act of rotating the arm or the leg so that the palm of the hand sole of the foot is turned forward or upward
Supination
The act of rotating the arm or leg so that the palm of the hand or sole of the foot is turned downward or backward
Pronation
Pertaining to the sole of the foot
Plantar
Where the muscles begins and it is located nearest the midline of the body or on a less movable part of the skeleton
Origin
Where the muscle ends by attaching to a bone or tendon
Insertion
Occurs when inflamed and swollen tendons are caught in the narrow space between the bones within the shoulder joint
Impingement syndrome
Symptoms occur when the tendons that pass through the carpal tunnel are chronically overused and become inflamed and swollen
Carpal tunnel syndrome
An inflammation of the plantar fascia on the sole of the foot
Plantar fasciitis
