| Week 3 Scholarly Questions and Analytical Thinking Neuromuscular Fundamentals Please review your directional terminology as you will see more of this on the next exam: Click Here What does the word muscle mean? Can you name 4 functions of muscle? Explain excitability. Explain contractility. Explain extensibility. Explain elasticity. What does origin mean? What does insertion mean? Explain a concentric action and be able to recognize in a movement. Explain an eccentric action and be able to recognize in a movement. Explain an eccentric action and be able to recognize in a movement. What is an agonist? What is an antagonis? What is a synergist? Review the basic breakdown of the nervous system. What constitutes the central nervous system? What is the peripheral nervous system? What is the sensory or afferent division? What is the motor or efferent division? What is the autonomic nervous system? What is the somatic nervous system? What are the parts of a nerve cell? i.e., what is the cell body, nucleus, axon hillock, and axon? Nerve signaling messages actually jump on their propagation to the target organ. What is this called? What is the neuromuscular junction? What is a muscle spindle? What does it sense? What is a golgi tendon organ? What does it sense? BE READY TO DRAW LABEL AND EXPLAIN THE MYOTATIC STRETCH REFLEX USING THE PATELLA TENDON TAP REFLEX AS AN EXAMPLE: CLICK HERE FOR HELP |
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