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What nerve may be damaged when unable to dorsiflex the foot?
anterior tibilias
What can the tendons in the body do?
Tendons helps attach muscle to bone. It is especially important in stabilizing the muscle and helping it to stretch.
Is it normal to have muscles on your shins?
In human anatomy, the tibialis anterior is a muscle that originates in the upper two-thirds of the lateral surface of the tibia and inserts into the medial cuneiform and first metatarsal bones of the foot. Its acts to dorsiflex and invert the foot.
What muscles dorsiflex the ankle?
The main muscle used would be the tibialis anterior
What do the muscles in the foot do?
foot muscles
What muscle dorsiflex and everts ankle?
The Fibularis (Peroneus) Longus, Fibularis (Peroneus) Brevis, and Fibularis (Peroneus) Tertius.
An inability to extend the leg would result from a loss of function of what nerve?
An inability to extend the leg would result from a loss of function of the common peroneal nerve, a branch of the sciatic nerve. This nerve provides motor function to the muscles that extend the leg and dorsiflex the foot. Injury or compression of the common peroneal nerve can lead to weakness or paralysis in these muscles, resulting in difficulty extending the leg.
What are the antagonistic and agonist muscles of the ankles?
You have gastrocnemius and soleus muscles on the back of the leg. They have common insertion in the form of tendocalcaneus. On the front side you have muscles of peroneal compartment to antagonize the calf muscles.
Are the foot muscles voluntary or involuntary muscles?
voluntary, you control what it does.
How many tendons are in the foot?
how many tendons are in the foot?The number of tendons in the foot will be roughly equal to two times the number of intrinsic foot muscles plus the number of extrinsic foot muscles. There are 19 or 20 intrinsic foot muscles, therefore 38 to 40 intrinsic foot muscle tendons. How many extrinsic foot muscles?a cord or band of dense, tough, inelastic, white,fibrous tissue, serving to connect a muscle with a bone orpart
Location of muscles that move your toes?
the archilles are the muscles in the toes of your foot
Stroking infants foot results in dorsiflexion and toes to spread apart what reflex?
The Babinski reflex is elicited when the sole of the foot is stroked, causing the infant's toes to fan out and the big toe to dorsiflex. This reflex is normal in infants, but typically disappears by the age of two.
