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    The Muscular System: Tristan Joseph Cantillo BSN-RN, CRN

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    The muscular system contains over 600 skeletal muscles alone, which make up about 40% of our mass. Skeletal muscles are connected to the skeleton and move our bodies in space by contracting and relaxing. When a muscle contracts, the attachment points are pulled closer together, and when it relaxes the attachment points move apart. Muscles contract when messages from nerves trigger chemical reactions in muscle fiber cells that shorten the muscle. Not all muscle is skeletal muscle - smooth muscle is found in organs and helps facilitate functions like digestion and urination. The muscular and nervous systems work together, with the brain sending signals through nerves to cause specific muscles to contract and move bones at joints.

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    The muscular system contains over 600 skeletal muscles alone, which make up about 40% of our mass. Skeletal muscles are connected to the skeleton and move our bodies in space by contracting and relaxing. When a muscle contracts, the attachment points are pulled closer together, and when it relaxes the attachment points move apart. Muscles contract when messages from nerves trigger chemical reactions in muscle fiber cells that shorten the muscle. Not all muscle is skeletal muscle - smooth muscle is found in organs and helps facilitate functions like digestion and urination. The muscular and nervous systems work together, with the brain sending signals through nerves to cause specific muscles to contract and move bones at joints.

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    The muscular system contains over 600 skeletal muscles alone, which make up about 40% of our mass. Skeletal muscles are connected to the skeleton and move our bodies in space by contracting and relaxing. When a muscle contracts, the attachment points are pulled closer together, and when it relaxes the attachment points move apart. Muscles contract when messages from nerves trigger chemical reactions in muscle fiber cells that shorten the muscle. Not all muscle is skeletal muscle - smooth muscle is found in organs and helps facilitate functions like digestion and urination. The muscular and nervous systems work together, with the brain sending signals through nerves to cause specific muscles to contract and move bones at joints.

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    The Muscular System: Tristan Joseph Cantillo BSN-RN, CRN

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    Monico Salanguste
    The muscular system contains over 600 skeletal muscles alone, which make up about 40% of our mass. Skeletal muscles are connected to the skeleton and move our bodies in space by contracting and relaxing. When a muscle contracts, the attachment points are pulled closer together, and when it relaxes the attachment points move apart. Muscles contract when messages from nerves trigger chemical reactions in muscle fiber cells that shorten the muscle. Not all muscle is skeletal muscle - smooth muscle is found in organs and helps facilitate functions like digestion and urination. The muscular and nervous systems work together, with the brain sending signals through nerves to cause specific muscles to contract and move bones at joints.

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    The Muscular System

    Tristan Joseph Cantillo BSN-RN, CRN


    Overview
    • At the simplest level, muscles allow us to move.
    Smooth muscle and cardiac muscle move to
    facilitate body functions like heartbeats and
    digestion. The movement of these muscles is
    directed by the autonomic part of the nervous
    system—those are the nerves that control
    organs. Skeletal muscles move our bodies in
    space. They take direct instruction from the
    specific nerves that innervate each muscle.
    • The muscles that move the human skeleton
    vary greatly in shape and size and extend to
    every part of our bodies. The muscular system
    contains over 600 skeletal muscles alone,
    which make up about 40% of our mass. Blood
    vessels and nerves run to every muscle,
    helping control and regulate each muscle’s
    function.
    • In the muscular system, skeletal muscles are
    connected to the skeleton, either to bone or
    to connective tissues such as ligaments.
    Muscles are always attached at two or more
    places. When the muscle contracts, the
    attachment points are pulled closer together;
    when it relaxes, the attachment points move
    apart.
    Muscle Interactions
    • Muscles contract and relax to move bones. The
    elbow joint bends (flexes) when muscles pull on
    the radius and ulna of the arm. Muscles contract
    when messages travel from nerves to muscles and
    trigger chemical reactions. These reactions change
    the internal structures of muscle fiber cells, a
    process that shortens the muscle. The muscle
    fibers relax when the nervous system signal is no
    longer present, thus reversing the shortening.
    • Not all muscle tissue is skeletal muscle. Smooth
    muscle tissue is in the walls of many human
    body organs and helps those organs move to
    facilitate body functions. The alimentary canal
    (esophagus, stomach, and intestines) includes
    muscle tissue that contracts and relaxes to
    move nutrients through the digestion process.
    The urinary bladder also includes muscle tissue
    that contracts and relaxes to hold and release
    urine. Heartbeats are the result of the
    contraction and relaxation of muscle tissue in
    the heart wall. Smooth muscles in the walls of
    arteries help move blood through the body.
    • How do skeletal muscles move? It happens when
    the muscular system and the nervous system work
    together: Somatic signals are sent from the cerebral
    cortex to nerves associated with specific skeletal
    muscles. Most signals travel through spinal nerves
    that connect with nerves that innervate skeletal
    muscles throughout the body. Want to flex an
    elbow joint? Your cerebral cortex sends a signal
    through your spinal nerve to the nerves that
    innervate muscles around the elbow joint. When
    that signal reaches the muscle tissue its cells
    reorganize, causing a contraction that bends the
    elbow joint!
    SHOULDER MUSCLES
    Hip Muscles - ANterior
    Hip Muscles - posterior
    Adductors of Hip Joint
    Muscles acting on knees

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