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What muscle bends your knee?

The quadriceps muscle helps straighten and extend the leg and the hamstring helps bend the knee.


What Muscle or tendon on left side of right knee pops out of place when it bends sometimes?

LCL


What muscle is in the leg that bends the knee and is made up of three muscles?

The only muscle of the leg that is made up of three muscles are the hamstrings.


What type for muscle bends a joint?

The type of muscle that bends a joint is called a flexor muscle. Flexor muscles contract to decrease the angle between two bones at a joint, facilitating movements like bending the elbow or knee. These muscles work in opposition to extensor muscles, which increase the angle at a joint.


What type of muscle bends the knee?

Hamstrings ( Biceps Femoris, Semitendinosus & Semimembranosus) are the Agonistic Muscles Quadricpes ( Rectus Femoris, Vastus Lateralis, Vastus Medialis & Vastus Intermedius) are the Antagonistic Muscles Hope I Helped... Sharnie x :)


Name a part of the body that bends?

knee


How do you get strong legs?

Deep knee bends.


What exercises start with k?

knee bends


What muscle flexes the knee and bends the foot downward?

The Gastrocnemius. There is another muscle involved in plantar flexion. The soleus and the tibialus posterior maintains the arch. The only one that does both actions, though, is the Gastrocnemius.


Muscle that bends body?

Spine. Bone, not muscle.


Which type of movement bends the knee and brings the lower leg toward the back?

flexion of the knee.


A muscle that bends part of your body is called?

A flexor muscle.