The two types of skeletal muscle fibers are slow-twitch (type I) and fast-twitch (type II). Slow-twitch muscle fibers support long distance endurance ...
Is it a pulled muscle or pinched nerve?How can you tell the difference between nerve pain and muscle pain?How do you know if it's a pulled muscle or s...
Flexors are muscles involved in flexing a muscle, like the biceps. ... These muscles extend two muscles further, e.g. Triceps. 3 Extensors are muscles...
Single-unit smooth muscle in the walls of the viscera, called visceral muscle, has a stress-relaxation response that permits muscle to stretch, contra...
The sarcolemma is the cell (plasma) membrane of the muscle fiber itself. The endomysium is a thin sleeve of fibrous connective tissue over the muscle ...
In a concentric contraction, the muscle tension rises to meet the resistance then remains stable as the muscle shortens. During eccentric contraction,...
Cardiac muscle is involuntary and found only in the heart. Skeletal muscle is striated in regular, parallel bundles of sarcomeres. Cardiac muscle is s...
Golgi tendon organs are activated when the tendon attached to an active muscle is stretched. ... The result is a reduction in tension within the muscl...
Each muscle is surrounded by a connective tissue sheath called the epimysium. Fascia, connective tissue outside the epimysium, surrounds and separates...
