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Wk 3: myology Flashcards

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Muscle characteristics

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Excitability
Contractibility
Elasticity
Extensibility

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Excitability (muscle characteristics)

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tissue responds to a stimulus

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Contractility (muscle characteristics)

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tissue can shorten & generate force

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Extensibility (muscle characteristics)

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tissue can be stretched

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Elasticity (muscle characteristics)

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tissue can return to original length

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Muscle types

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  • Smooth: non-striated and involuntary
  • Cardiac: striated and involuntary
  • Skeletal: striated and voluntary
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Gross anatomy of skeletal muscle

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  • Belly: the bulk of the muscle
  • Attachments: to the skeleton
  • Muscles CROSS joints
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Types of attatchments

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  • Proximal attachment (origin usually): least mobile bone
  • Distal attachment (insertion usually): most mobile bone
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Tendon Sheaths

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  • Surround tendons as they pass through tunnels or over other structures
  • Reduce friction (contain synovial fluid)
  • Common at distal ends of limbs
  • Allow efficient ‘action’ long distances from muscle belly: prevent tendons pulling away from skeleton
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Skeletal muscle attachments

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Fleshy

Tendon

Raphe

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Fleshy (muscle attatchment)

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muscle fibres attach directly to bone with a small amount of connective tissue

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Tendon (muscle attachment)

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muscle fibres attach to a cord of connective tissue that attaches to bone

fibre-> connective tissue -> bone

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Raphe (muscle attachment)

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muscle fibres attach to a sheet of connective tissue that attaches to bone

fibres-> sheet of connective -> bone

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Parallel skeletal muscle types

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Strap
Fusiform
Triangular/convergent
Flat/quadrilateral

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Strap

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long and flat

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Fusiform

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classic type

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Triangular/convergent

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broad origin and narrow insertion

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Flat/quadrilateral

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fibres in same axes as tendon

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Oblique skeletal muscle types

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Unipennate

Bipennate

Multipennate

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Unipennate

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muscle fibres attach to one side of tendon only

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Bipennate

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fibres attach to both sides of tendon and central septum

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Multipennate

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group of several bipennate ‘units’

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Sliding filament theory:

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  • Actin (thin) & myosin (thick) filaments slide over one another
  • Produce muscle shortening
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Parallel muscles

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maximum shortening of muscle belly

  • Larger range of movement but with less force/power
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Oblique muscles

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**less shortening **of muscle belly

  • Less range of movement BUT more force/power
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Muscle action what to describe

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what JOINT is MOVED

name of MOVEMENT

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Functional anatomy

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is taking the knowledge of the body structures that we learn and applying it to live, moving bodies

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Action

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the movement produced when a muscle contracts concentrically in isolation

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Action is dependant on

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  • Site of attachments
  • Type of joint
  • Relationship of line of pull to joint
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Isometric contraction

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  • Occurs when tension is generated in a muscle
  • Muscle length and angle of joint DOES NOT change
  • Produces no movement
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Isotonic contraction

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  • Muscle contraction that changes the length
    Eccentric and concentric
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Eccentric

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muscle lengthening

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Cocentric

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muscle shortening

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Functions/roles of skeletal muscles

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  • Agonist
  • Antagonist
  • Fixator (stabiliser)
  • Synergist (neutraliser)
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Agonist

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muscle producing the desired movement by contracting

  • Concentric, eccentric or isometric
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Antagonist

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muscle which must relax to allow the desired movement to occur

  • Usually the opposite muscle to the agonist

Cannot have another role

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Fixator/stabiliser

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stabilises a body segment so that another muscle can perform an action

  • Acts to eliminate the unwanted movement of an agonist’s origin
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Synergist/neutraliser

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assists the agonist to produce the desired movement by cancelling the unwanted action of the agonist

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External forces

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Gravity: force acting on every object

Momentum: can produce movement

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Two joint muscles

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passes over two joints

  • Implications for recruitment: increased requirement for synergism
  • Implications for joint range testing: must consider 2 joint muscles when testing range of motion
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Length-Tension relationship

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direct relationship between the tension a muscle fibre can produce and the length of the sarcomeres in that muscle fibre

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Passive insufficiency

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max passive length is insufficient to allow full range of movement at both joints together

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Active insufficiency

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max length change insufficient to produce full range of movement at both joints together

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Axis/fulcrum

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pivot point

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Force/load

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external force (gravity/weight, friction)

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Resistance/effort

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generated by the muscle pulling

47
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Types of levers

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