ACTIVITY 2

ACTIVITY 2

ACTIVITY 2

by Juan Miguel Usita -
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Activity 2

  1.  Throwing a baseball overhead
    Muscle: Triceps Brachii
    Action - Extends the elbow
    Innervation - Innervated by radial nerve
    Muscle: Biceps Brachii
    Action - Flexes the elbow
    Innervation - C5 and C6 fibers of the musculocutaneous nerve

  2.  Kicking a ball
    Muscle: Hamstrings (biceps femoris, semimembranosus, semitendinosus)
    Action - Flexes the knee
    Innervation - Lumbar and Sacral Plexus Nerves
    Muscle: Quadriceps Femoris
    Action - Flexes hip, Extends knee
    Innervation - L2 L3 L4 femoral nerve

  3.  Doing sit-ups
    Muscle: Rectus Abdominis
    Action - Flexion of trunk
    Innervation -  Thoracoabdominal nerves
    Muscle: External Obliques
    Action - Flexion and contralateral rotation of trunk
    Innervation - Thoracoabdominal nerves, Subcostal nerve

4. Breathing
Muscle: Diaphragm
Action - Contracts and flattens during inhalation, expands during exhalation
Innervation - Phrenic nerve
Muscle: Intercostal muscles
Action - Expands and shrinks the size of the chest cavity
Innervation - Intercostal nerves