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What muscle produces extension of the fingers joints and wrist?
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∙ 11y ago
extensor digitorum
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What kind of muscle not responsible for flexion or extension of the arm?
Which of these muscles is not responsible for flexion or extension of the arm?
What extension of the lower arm is a result of the contraction of?
The Triceps muscle
What kinds of muscle move bones in different direction?
joints
What is the major factor that influences the stability of synovial joints?
Muscle tone
What moves your joints?
Flexor and extensor tendons connected to skeletal muscle
What is the muscle that produces extension at a joint called?
This muscle is called the extensor muscle. There are specific names for different joints.
Muscle that adducts the shoulder and causes extension of the shoulder joints?
latissimus dorsi
How do muscle cells use energy?
Since the mitochondria produces energy and the muscle cells are part of the mitochondria, they use the energy so they can move the joints.
Agonists in knee extension?
An agonist muscle is a muscle that plays a part in the extension of a muscle. The agonist muscles for a knee extension are the quadriceps and hamstrings.
What is the muscle connected to your bones?
skeletal muscle Joints
How does an over-extension of a muscle feel?
The over-extension of a muscle might feel like burning or pain in the muscle. After the exercise, the muscle can feel sore or even swollen.
What is the difference between muscle flexing and muscle extension?
Inn other words muscle flexing can be called muscle shortening and extension when muscle is elongating. For example when you bend you arm towards your shoulder your bicep muscle is shortening and you can feel a bump. When you extend your arm you can feel that the bump is stretching out and disappearing, that is muscle extension.
What are the muscular cells?
Smooth (organs)Cardiac (heart muscle)Skeletal (movement, support, strength)Muscle cells have a nucleus just like other cells. The basic units of a muscle cell are the actin and myosin filaments that slide past each other to allow flexion and extension of your joints.
What muscle group does extension of the knee?
Quadriceps muscle or thigh muscle.
What are the two muscle contractions?
Flexion and extension.
What joints the leg to the leg bone?
muscle
Does the soleus muscle cross over two joints?
A muscle that, from origin to insertion, crosses two joints, and thus can produce an action at both joints. Example: the "hamstrings" (semimembranosis and semintendinosis) cross the hip joint and the knee joint and act on both joints (extend at hip, flex at knee).
