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Example: If you're sitting normally in a chair when your quadriceps contract, your lower leg will be extended, so that it's straight. If you're standing, your leg will go from being bent to being straight.
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When your quadriceps bulge out are these muscles contracting or relaxing?
Contracting or contracted. Related Information: When any muscle bulges it is contracted. Muscles work by contracting , and as they contract, the y bulge . As they relax again, they elongate, causing the bulging to subside.
What is a body part that starts with Q?
Quadriceps, quadratus lumborum, quadratus femoris are body parts that start with Q.
How do You use quadriceps in a sentence?
My quadriceps are sore. The coach's most dreaded words were, "Prepare to stretch your quadriceps".
Why are quadriceps need?
Quadriceps will extend your lower leg.
What is the muscel in front of the thigh?
quadricepsVastus Lateralis on the right side.Vastus Medialis on left side.
What are the primary muscle used for lunge?
Quadriceps
What are the funtions of the quadriceps?
Quadriceps contracts to extend the knee joint. Rectus femoris, the part of quadriceps flex the hip joint on the thigh.
What is a quadriceps contusion?
A bruise on your quadriceps muscle, which is the large muscle in your thigh.
Which is the largest muscle in the human body - Is it gluteus maximus or quadriceps?
quadriceps
What is the collagenous structure anchoring the quadriceps muscle to the patella?
Quadriceps tendon
What diseases are caused by the quadriceps?
Quadriceps is a muscle in a leg, not a cause of disease.
What are your quadriceps used for?
Basically, quadriceps are used to extend the lower leg to straighten it.
