Name at least three muscles that actively contracts during the following activities and name its action and innervation:
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Turning a door knob
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Biceps brachii
Action - The movement of this muscle includes supination and flexion of the elbow and flexion of the shoulder.
Innervation - This muscle is innervated by the musculocutaneous nerve.
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Extensor carpi ulnaris
Action - The movement of this muscle includes extension and adduction.
Innervation - This muscle is innervated by the posterior interosseous nerve.
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Pronator teres
Action - The movement of this muscle includes the pronation of the forearm.
Innervation - This muscle is innervated by the median nerve.
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Throwing a baseball overhead
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Deltoid
Action - The movement of this muscle includes flexion, internal rotation, and abduction of the shoulder.
Innervation - This muscle is innervated by the axillary nerve.
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Pectoralis major
Action - The movement of this muscle includes the internal rotation and adduction of the humerus.
Innervation - This muscle is innervated by the medial and lateral pectoral nerves.
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Triceps
Action - The movement of this muscle includes arm internal rotation as well as forearm extension.
Innervation - This muscle is innervated by the radial nerve.
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Kicking a ball
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Psoas major
Action - The movement of this muscle includes external rotation as well as flexion of the hip joint.
Innervation - This muscle is innervated by the anterior rami of spinal nerves.
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Rectus femoris
Action - The movement of this muscle includes flexion of the hip.
Innervation - This muscle is innervated by femoral nerves.
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Tibialis anterior
Action - The movement of this muscle includes dorsiflexion and inversion of the ankle joint and foot.
Innervation - This muscle is innervated by deep fibular nerves.
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Doing sit-ups
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Rectus femoris
Action - The movement of this muscle includes leg extension and flexion of the hip.
Innervation - This muscle is innervated by femoral nerves.
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Internal oblique
Action - The movement of this muscle includes trunk flexion, compression of abdominal viscera, and also trunk lateral flexion and trunk rotation, which are both ipsilateral.
Innervation - This muscle is innervated by the intercostal, subcostal, ilioinguinal, and iliohypogastric nerves.
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External oblique
Action - The movement of this muscle includes trunk flexion, compression of abdominal viscera, and also trunk lateral flexion, which is ipsilateral, and trunk rotation, which is contralateral.
Innervation - This muscle is innervated by intercostal nerves, subcostal nerves, and the iliohypogastric nerve.
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Walking
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Soleus
Action - The movement of this muscle includes plantarflexes of the foot.
Innervation - This muscle is innervated by the tibial nerve.
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Fibularis tertius
Action - The movement of this muscle includes dorsiflexion and eversion of the foot.
Innervation - This muscle is innervated by deep fibular nerves.
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Fibularis longus
Action - The movement of this muscle includes eversion and plantarflexion of the foot. It also provides support to the transverse and lateral foot arches.
Innervation - This muscle is innervated by a superficial fibular nerve.
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Breathing
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Rectus abdominis
Action - The movement of this muscle includes trunk flexion, compression of abdominal viscera, and expiration.
Innervation - This muscle is innervated by intercostal and subcostal nerves.
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Diaphragm
Action - The movement of this muscle includes depression of the costal cartilages. It is also the primary muscle for breathing.
Innervation - This muscle is innervated by phrenic nerves.
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Internal oblique muscle
Action - The movement of this muscle includes compression of abdominal content, flexing and bending of the trunk.
Innervation - This muscle is innervated by the lower intercostal, ilioinguinal, and iliohypogastric nerves.
References:
https://www.kenhub.com/en/library/anatomy/psoas-major-muscle
https://geekymedics.com/hip-joint/
https://www.kenhub.com/en/library/anatomy/external-abdominal-oblique-muscle
https://www.kenhub.com/en/library/anatomy/diaphragm