Nervous System
Specialized cell that is the functional unit of the nervous system
What is a neuron
A motor neuron and all the muscle fibers that it innervates
What is a motor unit?
Two divisions of the skeletal System
Axial and Appendicular skeleton
Energy.
What is ATP?
3 types of muscle tissues
What is skeletal, cardiac, and smooth?
Division of the nervous system that includes the brain and spinal cord
What is the CNS?
What is myofibrils or myofilaments?
Fibrous connective tissue that connects bone to bone
What is a ligament?
The loss of bone mass that occurs as we age due to nutrition and physical inactivity
What is osteoporosis?
What is 50 years old?
Respond to mechanical forces - touch and pressure
What are mechanoreceptors?
Muscle fiber types
What is Type 1/Type 11 or Fast Twitch and slow twitch
Movement of a limb that is visible
What is osteokinematics?
The body's ability to naturally sense its general orientation and relative position of its parts
What is proprioception?
What is cervical, thoracic, lumbar, sacrum, and coccyx?
Divisions of the Autonomic Nervous System: Fight or Flight & Rest and Digest
What are the Sympathetic and Parasympathetic Nervous systems?
Protein based molecule that carries oxygen into the muscles
What is myoglobin?
Name this bone type: scapulae, sternum, ribs
What is flat?
Collective components and structures that work together to move the body; muscular, skeletal and nervous systems
What is the Human Movement System
What is Wolff's Law?
The concept that the brain will continually change or grow during a lifespan
What is neuroplasticity?
This neurotransmitter is responsible for helping the Action Potential cross the synapse into the muscle to initiate a muscle contraction
What is acetylcholine (ACh)?
Specialized cartilage disc located at the epiphysis that is responsible for bone growth
What is the growth plate/ epiphyseal plate?
A concept that describes the human body as a chain of interdependent links that work together to perform a movement
What is the Kinetic Chain
if a nerve impulse is not strong enough, there will be no action potential and no muscle contraction
What is the All-or Nothing Principle?