name and describe the prime mover appendicular muscles or most important appendicular muscle groups
Imagine that you are posing while resting on a small, narrow platform that only supports your trunk, neck and head. You are in a horizontal, supine, position. Your limbs are arranged as described below and you have to contract appendicular skeletal muscles to keep them that way, against the force of gravity.
Arrangement of the limbs:
- Hands and fingers are flexed
- Forearms are pronated
- Forearms are extended at the elbow
- Arms are vertical (at a 90 degree angle from your trunk)
- Thighs are horizontal and adducted
- Legs are horizontal (extended)
- Feet are dorsiflexed
- In addition, to facilitate the position of your upper limbs, your shoulder blades are adducted (retracted).
The assignment: Name and describe the prime mover appendicular muscles (see Prime Mover Skeletal Muscle Info) or most important appendicular muscle groups (if there are/is no prime mover(s)) necessary to maintain this pose and the innervation of the muscles (see Tables in Tortora Ch. 11 and 17 for innervation of muscles).
- Organize your description by the appendicular joint(s) at which movement of the relevant body part occurs.
- There should be 8 paragraphs in your essay, 7 of which correspond to the muscle actions necessary to maintain the pose at the following appendicular joints (include innervation for each muscle!).
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- Fingers/wrist (gross movements caused by forearm muscles – don’t include intrinsic hand muscles)
- Distal & proximal radioulnar joints
- Elbow
- Shoulder
- Hip
- Knee
- Ankle (talocrural joint)
- The 8th paragraph should be a description of the muscles involved in maintaining the position of the scapulae during the pose, plus the nerves that innervate them.
I will post the TorTora chapters 11 and 17 that needs to be used and the powerpoint that needs to be used. Do not use any text that is not provided.
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