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The knee helps your leg flex and extend.
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Does the quadriceps femoris group flex or extend the leg?
extend
What muscle bends your knee?
The quadriceps muscle helps straighten and extend the leg and the hamstring helps bend the knee.
Explain the difference between extending and flexing your arm at the elbow?
When you straighten your arm or leg (as in a pushing movement), you EXTEND the arm or leg. When you bend your arm at the elbow or your leg at the knee, you FLEX the arm at the elbow and flex the leg at the knee.
Name the muscle group that flexes the lower leg?
The dorsiflexors include the extensorum longus, the tibialis anterior, and the peroneus.
What sports are hinge joints used for?
in football when your about to kick the ball you have to flex and extend your leg.it allows you to bend and straighten (flexion and extension) the joint, for example, when kicking a ball in football, you bend your leg in preparation and then straighten your leg to kick the ballyour hinge joint is used in foot ball when kicking the ball
What allows you to flex and extend your lower leg and upper arms?
flexing is tightening of your muscles, and joints bend to let you extend your arm from the elbow and shoulder
Functions of triceps femoris muscle of frog?
extends leg; straightens knee joint
Is The antagonist muscle to the quadriceps is the hamstring?
The Hamstrings consist of three muscles that have the same action: the Biceps Femoris, Semitendinosus and Semimembranosus. Their actions are to flex the knee joint, adduct the leg, and extend the thigh. The Quadriceps femoris is four muscles of the femur. They are the Rectus femoris, Vastus lateralis, Vastus medialis, and Vastus intermedialis. As a group (the quads) they extend the leg at the knee.
What is the smallest muscle in your leg?
The plantaris is the smallest muscle in the human leg. It is used to flex the knee joint and is absent in about 7 percent of the human population.
Does the bicepts brachii flex or extend the leg?
Neither. The biceps brachii flex the elbow and supinates, or turns, the upper part of your arm. They are commonly referred to as just the biceps and are seen with flexing your arm with weights. To do this, you need to do a bicep curl, which is just bringing the weight to your shoulder, having the palm of your hand face your shoulder, pointing back. It is the muscles that lies on the inner part of the forearm and is usually the stronger than most other muscles in the arms. Hope this helps!
What leg muscles are similar in function to the triceps and biceps in the arm?
The Quadriceps extend just like the triceps, which include the rectus femoris, vastus lateralis, vastus medialis, and vastus intermedius. The Hamstrings flex just like the biceps, which include the biceps femoris, semitendinosus, and semimembranosus. Quads extend, Triceps extend Hamstrings flex, arm biceps (biceps brachii, brachialis) flex
Explain why the muscles of the finger cannot develop as much force as the muscles of the leg?
The muscles that flex and extend your finger are not as large as those in your leg. As a result, the biochemical processes that cause muscles to flex are limited. Trying to exert leg-force with your hands is a bit like using a moped to haul a boat.
