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  2. Posture (psychology) - Wikipedia

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    Posture is highly affected by muscle length and tension patterns, such as tight hamstring muscles or pectoral muscles, as well as muscle strength (for example, abdominal, glutei, and trapezius strength). The posture of dancers and athletes often improves when they train for their sports. Additionally, breathing patterns affect posture.

  3. List of movements of the human body - Wikipedia

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    Muscles in the Lateral compartment of leg also weakly participate, namely the Fibularis longus and Fibularis brevis muscles. Those in the lateral compartment only have weak participation in plantar flexion though. The range of motion for plantar flexion is usually indicated in the literature as 30° to 40°, but sometimes also 50°.

  4. List of skeletal muscles of the human body - Wikipedia

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    Lower limb, Thigh/Hip, Medial compartment (adductor muscles) pubic body just below pubic crest middle third of linea aspera: obturator artery: anterior branch of obturator nerve [12] adducts and medially rotates hip [12] gluteus medius, gluteus minimus: 2 1 adductor magnus, adductor part Lower limb, Thigh/Hip, Medial compartment (adductor ...

  5. Knee pain - Wikipedia

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    Knee pain is pain in or around the knee. The knee joint consists of an articulation between four bones: the femur, tibia, fibula and patella. There are four compartments to the knee. These are the medial and lateral tibiofemoral compartments, the patellofemoral compartment and the superior tibiofibular joint.

  6. Vastus lateralis muscle - Wikipedia

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    The vastus lateralis (/ ˈ v æ s t ə s ˌ l æ t ə ˈ r eɪ l ɪ s, ˈ r æ-/), also called the vastus externus, [1] is the largest and most powerful part of the quadriceps femoris, a muscle in the thigh. Together with other muscles of the quadriceps group, it serves to extend the knee joint, moving the lower leg forward.

  7. Cutaneous reflex in human locomotion - Wikipedia

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    The reflexive response to this activation is to pull the leg up and over the obstacle, while also preparing for a possible stumble or fall. Observed EMG muscle responses to SF stimulation help to explain how this reflexive response is accomplished: Increased biceps femoris activity flexes the knee, pulling the leg up and over the obstacle.

  8. Reciprocal innervation - Wikipedia

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    Reciprocal innervation describes skeletal muscles as existing in antagonistic pairs, with contraction of one muscle producing forces opposite to those generated by contraction of the other. For example, in the human arm, the triceps acts to extend the lower arm outward while the biceps acts to flex the lower arm inward. To reach optimum ...

  9. List of flexors of the human body - Wikipedia

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    The iliacus and nearby muscles. The hip flexors are (in descending order of importance to the action of flexing the hip joint): [2] Collectively known as the iliopsoas or inner hip muscles: Psoas major; Iliacus muscle; Anterior compartment of thigh. Rectus femoris (part of the quadriceps muscle group) Sartorius; One of the gluteal muscles ...