In the past decade, our laboratory has extensively studied the muscles of the body.Khalid AlmutairiMaolinTangSteven F. MorrisPlastic and reconstructive surgery
The anterior thigh muscles are the ones that are in the front of your body, including the pectineus, quadriceps, and sartorius. These muscles are mainly involved in flexing your legs, like when you stand up. Meanwhile, the medial thigh muscles are located between the anterior and posterior mus...
Explore the human body's muscle anatomy and learn the names of the major muscles and what they do. Identify muscles on the body and know their...
Here, we break down the anatomy of your chest muscles, plus how to target each to make thembigger and stronger. Pectoralis Major Of the two chest muscles, the pectoralis major (a.k.a. the pec major) is the one that commands the most real estate. You have one of these large, fan-sh...
This course is accompanied by dedicated 3D anatomical views and animations created by Muscle and Motion, which provide you with an in-depth 3D anatomical view of the bones and muscles in action in each exercise, so with our comprehensive 3D animations, you will understand the anatomy of the kn...
The change in shape of the chest to emphasize breadth rather than depth altered the relation of muscles in the shoulder region, with an increase in size of thelatissimus dorsimuscle and the pectoralis major muscle. The humanpectoralis minormuscle hasforsakenits attachment to thehumerus, the longbo...
A comprehensive survey of the movements performed by each joint relative to the body's anatomical planes and horizontal axis; it identifies the muscles involved and their actions on the joint in creating movements of different kinds (flexion and extension, abduction and adduction, circumduction, etc...
Adductor magnus.One of the largest muscles in the body, this attaches along the linea aspera, a line running vertically along the inside of your thighbone. Adductor brevis and adductor longus.These adductors trace a similar path, reinforcing the action of the broad central portion of the adduct...
Function of the Chest Muscles MY LATEST VIDEOS Sorry, the video player failed to load.(Error Code: 101102) The chest is part of a larger group of “pushing muscles” found in the upper body. The chest, as part of this group, enables you to perform pushing actions such as thebarbell be...
How do the bones of the human skeleton move? Skeletal muscles contract and relax to mechanically move the body. Messages from the nervous system cause these muscle contractions. The whole process is called the mechanism of muscle contraction and it can be summarized in three steps: (1) A mess...