adductor muscles
For a limb to move, you need muscles, nerves, and a signal from the brain. The brain sends signals through nerves to the muscles, which contract and allow the limb to move.
Adductors
The skeletal muscle cells that are the effectors of the withdrawal reflex are the muscles that move the limb away from the painful stimulus. These muscles receive signals from the central nervous system to contract and move the limb as part of the reflex response to protect the body from harm.
Muscles move body parts by contracting and then relaxing. Your muscles can pull bones, but they can't push them back to their original position. So they work in pairs of flexors and extensors. The flexor contracts to bend a limb at a joint.
Two joint muscles in the upper limb is the wrist and the elbow. Two joint muscles in the lower limb is the ankle and the knee.
All the muscles of the upper limb
flexors
Muscles are in pairs as when one muscle contracts, its pair will relax, and the limb is moved. The reverse happens when the limb is returned to its starting position. Muscles can pull, but they can't push.
The muscles can only pull, not push. So, to move a limb, one muscle relaxes while the other muscle pulls.
The muscles can only pull, not push. So, to move a limb, one muscle relaxes while the other muscle pulls.
The muscles can only pull, not push. So, to move a limb, one muscle relaxes while the other muscle pulls.
The muscles can only pull, not push. So, to move a limb, one muscle relaxes while the other muscle pulls.