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The knee joint primarily allows for bending (flexion) and extending (extension). It functions like a hinge, enabling the lower leg to move towards the thigh during flexion and back to a straight position during extension. Additionally, the elbow joint also exhibits similar bending and extending movements, allowing the forearm to move towards and away from the upper arm. Both joints play crucial roles in various physical activities.
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When does the elbow joint bend?
The elbow joint bends when you flex your arm, bringing your hand closer to your shoulder. It also bends when you perform activities like throwing a ball or lifting weights.
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.
A body joint that opens and closes?
The knee joint is an example of a body joint that opens and closes as it flexes and extends during movement.
Which type of of movement bends the knee and brings the lower leg backward?
Extension. Extension increases an angle, as in straightening a joint. During extension, the knee or elbow are straightened.
What are flexible joint?
In the human body the knee is a flexible joint. The knee connects the upper part of the leg to the lower part of the leg. The knee is called a flexible joint because it's not stiff. It bends. Other flexible joints are the elbow and the knuckle.
What joint bends the arm?
The joint between the humerus and the ulna bends the elbow.
What type of muscle bends joint?
Flexor
What type of muscle bends a joint.?
Flexor
What muscle extends the forearm?
Triceps Brachii extends the forearm at the elbow joint.
When does the elbow joint bend?
The elbow joint bends when you flex your arm, bringing your hand closer to your shoulder. It also bends when you perform activities like throwing a ball or lifting weights.
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 are your lower body joint actions when you walk?
The ankle flexes as you place your heel down, then extends as your toes come down to the floor, repeating with each step. In coordination with the ankle flexion, the knee bends, then extends to push the lower leg forward. As the ankle and knee perform their flexion and extension, the hip joint on the same side must also flex and extend, while the spine continually 'adjusts' during the lower limbs' movements.
What contracts to extends or straighten the limb at the joint?
This type of muscle contracts to bend a limb at a joint
How can your thumb be a lever?
Your thumb is a lever because the joint that bends your thumb is a fulcrum.
What muscles contract when you kick a football?
the quadriceps will contract and the hamstring will relax .the quariceps straightens the knee and the hamstring extends the hip and bends the knee to kcik the football the quadriceps will contract and the hamstring will relax .the quariceps straightens the knee and the hamstring extends the hip and bends the knee to kcik the football the quadriceps will contract and the hamstring will relax .the quariceps straightens the knee and the hamstring extends the hip and bends the knee to kcik the football
A body joint that opens and closes?
The knee joint is an example of a body joint that opens and closes as it flexes and extends during movement.
What is the action of the vastus lateralis?
extends knee joint exerts lateral pul on patella
