Rectus femoris Essays

  • Vastus Lateralis Case Study

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    following muscles ⁃ Rectus femoris ⁃ The rectus femoris is a knee extensor. When palpating the rectus femoris you can feel the muscle as it runs dow the middle of the front of the thigh. ⁃ Vastus lateralis ⁃ The Vastus lateralis is a knee extensor. You can palpate the vastus lateralis laterally to the rectus, just below the greater trochanter. ⁃ Vastus intermedius ⁃ The vastus intermedius is a knee extensor. You can palpate the vests intermedius underneath the rectus when you approach your

  • Lifting Strengths

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    Lifting Weights to get rid of man boobs, does it work? ## French title ## First and foremost, man boobs or moobs is not something you can get rid of in a matter of days or weeks. For real, visible results, you need months of hard work. And most importantly, you cannot just do a gazillion of weight lifting exercises for your chest, since you cannot target just the chest area and forget the other areas of your body. However, the road to getting rid of man boobs is strengthening your chest areas,

  • Two Exercises That Strengthen Different Muscles

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    5) Demonstrate two exercises that strengthen and two exercises that stretch the following muscles. -Quadriceps femoris- The exercise I selected that strengthens the quadriceps femoris is the wall sit. A wall sit is a common exercise I have done many times throughout my time in the dance studio. The wall sit is when you stand with your wall against a wall with the feet parallel, hip width apart about 2 feet from the wall. Slowly bend the knees until the thighs are parallel to the floor with the

  • Apa Format

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    both used the bar, to assist in the squats. This study also used males and females. However, these individuals were experienced at performing front and back squats, which was different from our project. The same muscle groups were measured as ours (rectus fermoris and bicep fermoris). The particiapnts were given a five-minute rest period between each set. We provided a one- minute rest period between the squats (front and back). For five seconds the subject would maximally contract the knee extensors

  • Core Strength In Hockey

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    The exercises focus not only on the outer core but inner core strength as well. Strengthening muscles such as the oblique’s, transverse abdominis muscles, serratus anterior, rectus femoris, rectus abdominis, erector spinae and many other muscles found in the inner core, the anterior outer core (anterior chain) and the posterior outer core (posterior chain). These exercises are very basic without the use of any other external weights

  • Soccer Free Kick Research Paper

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    a greater impact on the ball making to travel further, Barfield, B (1998) Muscle involvement: - The right ankle is plantar flexed (concentric) by gastrocnemius and soleus.- The right hip is flexed, internally rotated by tensor fascia latae, rectus femoris, gluteus medius/minimus, and iliopsoas (all concentric)- The right knee is extended (concentric) by the quadriceps. (3) Foot-plant: The foot placement of the plant foot determines trajectory of the ball, when kicking the ball there is a direct

  • PAF 301: Written Performance Task

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    sit ups in a minute included a variety of core exercises. I’ve done side planks, sit ups, planks, russian twists, hollow holds, running mans, v-snaps, mountain climbers, plank jacks, wood chops and tuck extends. As I have worked various parts of my rectus abdominis such as my obliques and transversus abdominis, my body has gained an overall stomach toning. This overall toning and exercise lead to an increase of 15 more sit ups in a minute from my first fitness test results. Moving forward, running

  • High Jump Exercise

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    The quadriceps can be separated into rectus femoris, vastus lateralis and vastus medialis. The high knees will help improve flexibility on both the glute and quads. The continuous movement also increases heart rate, which can lead to potential increase in calories burned even though it is utilized

  • The Human Muscle System

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    punches. Inferior to the pectoralis major and lateral to the trunk you can find the serratus ventralis. The muscle rectus abdominus commonly known as the “6 pack” muscle found in between the inguinal ligament and the sternum. In a day to day the rectus abdominis compresses the abdomen and flexes vertebral column. (Allen and Harper 2014) A superficial muscle that is lateral to the rectus abdominis is the external oblique muscle. The

  • Assignment 2: Dissection Report

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    Assignment 2: Dissection Report Dalia Juarez Anatomy and Physiology Lab Section 13 Mauricio Nunez 10/22/15   Muscles are the surrounding structures found around the bones within the body and beneath the skin. They are essential to the movement, motion, flexibility, and allow for basic functions of everyday life. The way they contract, relax, and flex reflect to the exterior portion of the body and is seen by others as expression and body movement. Muscles can be categorized into three groups, smooth

  • Lumbar Spondylolysis

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    hamstring, rectus femoris, and tensor fascia lata musculature flexibility are important components of the conditioning program to individuals with spondylolysis or spondylolisthesis (Nau, Hanney, and Kolber, 2008). Flexibility exercises are integrated with the fitness routine once the patient is cleared by their physician to perform activities. The flexibility exercises that are most commonly used for rehabilitation of the lumbar spine is: hip flexor stretches, supine hamstring stretches, rectus femoris

  • Knee Joint Case Study

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    directions quickly or uncontrolled, violent plies. Dance being a sport that is not usually super physical, your injuries come from self inflicted accidents. As dancers it is our responsibility to strengthen our muscles on our lower extremities (Quadriceps femoris group and Hamstrings group) but our ligaments are not able to be strengthened, they are just how they are. With this in mind, we can do wall sits where you are against a wall and lower slowly,

  • Hip Joint Essay

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    The musculoskeletal system is composed of muscles, bones, joints.Joint composed of muscles, tendons, bursae, etc., so it will produce and facilitate movement of mechanical forces acting around the fulcrum (the joint) to perform the desired motion. The hip joint is a ball-and-socket joint. Hip joint is capable of complex motions (flexion, extension, abduction, adduction, and rotation). The Clinical examination tests, are not very specific for many diagnoses but although it is helpful. There are

  • Arthroplasty Annotated Bibliography

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    patients to return to their daily activities faster than ever before. The DA method causes considerably greater damage to the patient’s gluteus minimus muscle and tendon than is seen with the DS technique; in addition, the DA method damages the rectus femoris muscles and the tensor fascia latae, Dr. Roger’s DS technique does not. Dr. Douglas Roger is the medical director at the Institute of Clinical Orthopedics and Neuroscience, as well as the program director for the Disease Specific Certification

  • Spongy Bone Essay

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    Bone structure Spongy bone also knowns as cancellous contain red and yeallow bone marrow. Red bone marrow produces roughly 200 million of red blood cells (RBC) per a day. Yellow bone marrow contains primary fat cells. This can be transformed into red bone marrow to provide RBC if needed (Ivy Rose Holistic,n.d). The sponge is light and have low density which balance the heavier parts of bone. Sponge tend to form a long line of stress which gives strength and flexibility in that area (Biology dictionary

  • Essay On Hip Joint

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    The hip is a true ball and socket joint and the arrangement gives the hip the large amount of motion needed for daily activities like walking, squatting and stair climbing. The bones that form the hips are the femur or far bone and pelvis. The top of the femur shape like a ball called femoral head that fits into a round socket on the side of the pelvis. This socket is named as acetabulum. The femoral head is attached to the rest of the femur by a short section of a bone called femoral neck. A large

  • Improving Sprint Times Essay

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    How to Improve Your Sprint Times Introduction Picture this: you are in a race and you have been racing well. You are heading into the final 100 meters, and people around you start sprinting past you. It’s not fair, you have been beating them this whole time, and they only ran the last little bit faster. Well, you need to work on your finishing kick. You might be wondering, “how do I do that?” or “how do I improve on speed I just wasn’t born with?” A common misconception about finishing speed is

  • Research Paper On Michael Phelps

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    The Butterfly is the world’s hardest swim stroke. It takes a swimmer with great strength and determination to succeed in a Butterfly event. Extensive training and constant practice is required to master this stroke. Many swimmers never achieve this extensive goal. Michael Phelps is the best example of a successful Butterfly swimmer. He has spent the better portion of his life mastering this stroke. His unusual body structure helps him excel in this stroke. The muscular structure of a Butterfly swimmer

  • Force Angle Relationship Lab Report

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    this lab we concentrated on investigating the relationship between joint angle and consequential ability of muscles to produce force. The knee joint was focused on with the quadriceps (rectus femoris, vastus lateralis, vastus intermedialis vastus medialis) and hamstrings (semitendinosus, semimembranosus. biceps femoris lomg head and short head) being the main muscle groups studied. A relationship exists between the length of the muscle before the onset of contraction and the tetanic tension that each

  • Case Study: Locked Knee

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    flexion of 60 degrees maximum and during this due to torn fragment gets stuck in middle of joint and patient is unable to complete his swing phase because of severe pain. As the knee is constantly in hyper extension it creates the over activity of rectus femoris muscle and keeps the hip in extension too. This over activity is mainly seen in initial pre-swing phase and continued till mid swing. Repeated concentric contractions of