Kinesiology 2241A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Flexor Digitorum Longus Muscle, Quadriceps Femoris Muscle, Myocyte

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Now starting neuromuscular system that actually causes motion. The musculature (cid:523)don(cid:495)t need to memorize names of muscles will be familiar with them. Want to know architecture of the muscle, does it warp around or what) Anterior thigh notice it has different shapes of muscles. Muscles wrap travel around things and overtop other muscles: size matters. The muscles overlay the skeleton ad provide the means to move it. Each muscles produces a motion when it creates tension and tries to shorten. Its attachments and orientation determine what moves and how. Note the different shapes and wrappings of the muscles. Note the different alignment of the fibers within the muscles. Note the size (large or small) of the tendon attachments at either end. The proximal attachment of a muscle is its origin: attachment of the muscle closer to the center of the body, closer to connective tissue) retinacula for redirecting muscle pull between the origin and insertion the axial skeleton.

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