Structures & Types
A band of connective tissue that envelops, separates or binds together muscles or groups of muscles.
What is fascia?
These types of muscle tissue are located in the walls of internal organs. Their function is to move and control the flow of fluids through structures (digestive tract, blood vessels, ducts).
What are smooth muscles?
A calcium deposit in the plantar fascia near its attachment to the calcaneus (heel).
What is heel spur?
The circular movement around an axis such as a shoulder joint.
What it rotation?
This is extreme slowness in movement.
What is bradykinesia?
Long, slender cells that make up muscles.
What are muscle fibers?
These muscles form the muscular walls of the heart.
What are myocardial muscles?
The movement of a limb toward the midline.
What is adduction?
The act of rotating the arm/leg so that the palm of the hand or sole of the foot is turned forward or upward.
What is supination?
This muscle disorder means weakness or wearing away of body tissues and structures.
A narrow band of nonelastic, dense, fibrous connective tissue that attaches a muscle to a bone.
What is a tendon?
These muscles are attached to the bones of the skeleton and make body motions possible.
What are skeletal muscles?
The act of lowering a body part.
What is depression?
Decreasing the angle between two bones by bending a limb at a joint.
What is flexion?
A lack of muscle coordination during voluntary movement.
What is hypotonia?
Bands of fibrous tissues that form joints by connecting one bone to another bone.
What is a ligament?
These muscles are voluntary muscles.
What are skeletal muscles?
The permanent tightening of fascia, muscles, tendons, ligaments or skin that occurs when normally elastic connective tissues are replaced with nonelastic fibrous tissues
What is a contracture?
The movement that bends the foot upward at the ankle.
What is dorsiflection?
A chronic autoimmune disease that affects the neuromuscular junction and produces serious weakness of voluntary muscles.
What is myasthenia gravis?
What is the function of the muscular system?
What is
- to hold the body up and make movement possible
- generate heat
- move food through the digestive system
- move fluids through the body
These muscles are involuntary muscles.
What are smooth muscles and myocardial muscles?
A specialized soft-tissue manipulation technique used to ease the pain of certain conditions.
What is myofascial release?
The movement that bends the foot downward.
What is plantar flexion?
Paralysis of both legs and the lower part of the body.
What is paraplegia?