Muscles 1
What are the Frontalis Muscles?
Raise eyebrows, wrinkles forehead
What are your Trapezius Muscles?
Located on upper back & neck, extends head, move shoulders
What are the Intercostal Muscles?
located between ribs, moves ribs for breathing
What are the Sartorius Muscles?
located on front of thigh, connects ileum to tibia, abducts thigh, flexes leg
What is Fibromyalgia?
chronic, widespread pain in specific muscle sites
What are the Zygomaticus Muscles?
Connects cheekbones to corners of mouth
What are your deltoid muscles?
located at shoulder, abduction, flexion, extension & rotation of the arm
What are the Rectus Abdominis?
located ribs to pelvis, compresses abdomen & flexes vertebral column
What are your Quadriceps Femoris?
located on front of thigh, made up of four muscles, extends leg at knee
What is Muscular Dystrophy?
group of inherited disease, leads to chronic, progressive muscle atrophy, loss of movement & sometimes death
Connect zygomatic bone to mandible closes jaw
What are your Biceps Brachii?
located in anterior upper arm, flexes lower arm & supinates hand
What are the Oblique Muscles?
located on the lateral sides of the trunk, twists the trunk & rotates the spine, pulls the chest downward
What are your Hamstrings?
located in posterior high, made up of three muscle flexion of the leg at the knee
What is Myasthenia Gravis?
chronic condition, nerve impulses are not properly transmitted to muscles because actylcholine receptors on muscle are blocked by antibodies
Located onside of neck, rotates & flexes head
What are your Triceps Brachii?
located in posterior upper arm, extends & adducts lower arm
What are the Latissimus Dorsi?
located from spine around to chest, extends & adducts upper arm
What are your adductor muscles?
located on anterior, medial side of thigh, adduction & medial rotation of thigh
What are your Muscle Spasms?
sudden, painful invoulntary muscle contractions (cramps)
What are the Gastrocnemius Muscles?
located on back of lower leg, plantar flexion of foot, flexion of leg at the knee
What are your Pectoralis Major?
located in upper chest, adducts & flexes upper arm
What are the Gluteus Maximus?
located in buttocks, extends & rotates thigh
What is your Tibialis Anterior?
located on front of lower leg, doris flexes & inverts foot
What is Tendinitis?
inflammation of a tendon