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What muscles are used for flexing the knee?
the hamstring is used for flexing the knee
What muscles are used for hanging knee raise?
The pectoralis major I believe
What muscles are used in leg raises?
The muscles used in the leg press exercise are your Quads primarily. Hamstring gets a good work out too.
What are the antagonist muscle used in knee extension?
The antagonists would be those muscles that cause knee flexion. Hamstrings (biceps femoris, semimembranosus, semitendonosis) are the primary knee flexors, and would thus be antagonists to knee extension.
What muscles are used on a heel raise?
Gastrocnemius and Soleus with leg straight, to isolate gastrocnemius bend knee.
What muscles work together to straighten your leg?
The muscles used to straighten the leg are commonly known as the Quadriceps, a group of four muscles on the front of the thigh. This, however, is only the cast when the knee is isolated. If you were to stand up from a squatted position, you would also be using your gluteal muscles as well as your hamstrings to extend the thigh and stabilize the knee, while your quads and inner thigh muscles (the adductor) help to straighten the the knee. You would also be using your calf muscles to straighten the ankle.
Name the muscles used in flexion of the knee?
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The term refers to the posterior space behind the knee.?
The terms that is used to refer to the posterior surface of the knee is popliteal. The term describes the ligaments, space, muscles, and vessels of the area.
What body parts are used in running?
the parts involved in running are brain,achilles tendons,muscles,knee joints,lungs,ligaments etc.
What muscles are used for knee internal rotation?
- Popliteus - Semimembranosus - Semitendinosus
How is aqua therapy used in CMP?
Aqua therapy has the benefit of exercising the knee without putting stress on it and it also strengthens the thigh muscles.
What bones are used in riding bike?
There several muscles and joints which are used when riding a bicycle. Some of them include wrist joint, knee joint, hamstring muscles, quadriceps and the calf muscles among others.
