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What is the primary function of the knee extension muscle?
The primary function of the knee extension muscle is to straighten the leg by extending the knee joint.
What muscle does the last 10 degrees of knee extension?
The muscle primarily responsible for the last 10 degrees of knee extension is the popliteus muscle. It is a small muscle located at the back of the knee joint and helps to unlock the knee by internally rotating the tibia on the femur.
What knee muscle have reverse actions?
Gastrocnemius muscle
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.
Which muscle that will make the knee bend when it contracts. Which muscle that will make the leg straighten at the knee when it contracts. which of that two muscle is a lexor and an extensor?
The flexor would be the hamstring, and gastrocnemius, which bend/flex the knee. The quadriceps, are extensors, which straighten/extend the knee.
Which muscles contracts when the leg is extended at the knee?
The muscle that contracts when the leg is extended at the knee is call the gastrocnemius muscle
What muscle group does extension of the knee?
Quadriceps muscle or thigh muscle.
What muscles attach to the knee joint?
the muscle that is attached to the knee joint is the HINGE
Which muscle groups flex the knee?
hamstrings
Which muscle causes the knee to flex?
The Quadriceps.
What is the muscle that bends the knee?
Quadriceps femoris
Which is between the calf muscle and the thigh?
knee
