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What are the injuries found in a muscle strain?
A strain is a torn or stretched muscle or tendon.
What type of injuries occur suddenly during activitys?
Slip and falls, concussions, muscle tares or strains, tendon tares.
The blank of a muscle is usually attached to a fixed location?
Muscle Spindle
What structure of muscles that usually connects a muscle to bone?
Tendon
How relaxation in a skeletal muscle fiber occurs?
Relaxation of a skeletal muscle usually involves the Golgi tendon proprioceptors.
What reflex causes muscles relaxation and lengthening in response to muscle tension?
The reflex of the Golgi tendon.
Cord of connective tissue that joins a muscle to a bone?
The part of anatomy that fits this description is the tendon, which attaches the muscle to bone.
What is an antonym for the word tendon?
Muscle or Bone. A tendon connects a muscle and bone together but is not a muscle or bone.
What are some potential causes, symptoms and treatments for injuries to the Achilles tendon?
The Achilles tendon is on the back toward the rear of your foot. There are several injuries that you can sustain from the area. The best possible treatment is resting the foot and giving it time to heal on it's own.
What is the tough connective tissue that ties the gastronomic muscle to the calcaneous muscle?
The gastrocnemius muscle is located in the posterior, or back part of the lower leg. The calcaneal tendon, more commonly known as the Achilles Tendon, is what connects the gastrocnemius muscle to the calcaneus bone.
What is tendon excursion?
Tendon excursion is the distance that a tendon can move when a muscle contracts and relaxes. It is the length change that occurs in the tendon as the muscle produces movement at a joint. Tendon excursion is important for proper muscle function and joint mobility.
Injury to the body of the muscle or attachment of the tendon?
An injury to a muscle or a tendon is called a strain.
