ACTIVITY 2

HERNANDO, Hally T - Activity 2

HERNANDO, Hally T - Activity 2

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1. Turning a door knob

  • Muscle 1: Brachioradialis
  • Action: flexes forearm at elbow joint
  • Innervation: radial nerves 
  • Muscle 2: Supinator 
  • Action: supinates forearm at the radioulnar joints 
  • Innervation: deep radial nerve
  • Muscle 3: Pronator teres
  • Action: pronates the forearm at radioulnar joints
  • Innervation: median nerve 

2. Throwing a baseball overhead

  • Muscle 1: Deltoids
  • Action: flexion of arms towards overhead position, stabilizes the shoulder joint 
  • Innervation: axillary nerve
  • Muscle 2: Latissimus dorsi
  • Action: draws arm posteriorly, inferiorly, extends, adducts, and medially rotates arm at shoulder joint
  • Innervation: thoracodorsal nerve
  • Muscle 3: Teres major
  • Action: extends arm at the shoulder joint, assists in adduction and medial rotation of arm at shoulder joint
  • Innervation: lower subscapular nerve

3. Kicking a ball 

  • Muscle 1: Rectus femoris 
  • Action: flexion of thigh at the hip joint 
  • Innervation: lumbar spinal nerves, femoral nerve
  • Muscle 2: Gluteus maximus
  • Action: locks knee in extension, extends thigh at hip joint
  • Innervation: inferior gluteal nerve 
  • Muscle 3: Adductor longus
  • Action: adducts and flexes thigh at hip joint
  • Innervation: obturator nerve

4. Doing sit-ups 

  • Muscle 1: External oblique
  • Action: flexion of vertebral column bilateral/unilateral, bilateral compression of the abdomen 
  • Innervation: thoracic spinal nerves, iliohypogastric nerve
  • Muscle 2: Rectus abdominis
  • Action: flexes vertebral column, compresses abdomen (defecation, urination, forced exhalation, childbirth)
  • Innervation: thoracic spinal nerves 
  • Muscle 3: Transversus abdominis
  • Action: compression of abdomen
  • Innervation: thoracic spinal nerves, iliohypogastric nerve, ilioinguinal nerve

5. Walking 

  • Muscle 1: Tibialis posterior
  • Action: plantarflexor of the foot, support of medical longitudinal arch of foot
  • Innervation: tibial nerve
  • Muscle 2: Soleus
  • Action: plantarflexor of ankle joint
  • Innervation: tibial nerve
  • Muscle 3: Gastrocnemius
  • Action: plantarflexor of foot at talocrural joint
  • Innervation: tibial nerve

6. Breathing

  • Muscle 1: Diaphragm 
  • Action: contracts and flattens during inhalation
  • Innervation: phrenic nerve
  • Muscle 2: Internal intercostals
  • Action: contracts and draws adjacent ribs together
  • Innervation: thoracic spinal nerves
  • Muscle 3: External intercostals
  • Action: contracts and elevates ribs 
  • Innervation: thoracic spinal nerves