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joint movement
year 11 Physical Education
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| the type of joint movement where the where the joint angle is increasing? | FLEXION |
| The angle of the joint is increased and extension occurs in the median plane about the horizintol axis? | EXTENSION |
| This is the movement of a body part away from an imaginary midline of the body? | ABDUCTION |
| The is movement of a body aprt towards an imaginary midline of the body? | ADDUCTION |
| Occurs when a bone turns on its ow n within a joint? | ROTATION |
| The muscle primarily responsible for producing movement? | AGONIST |
| The muscle that relaxes as the agonist contracts? | ANATAGONIST |
| When muscles one one side of a bone or joint relax to accommodate contraction on the other sie of the bone or joint? | RECIPROCAL INHIBITION |
| Muscles that act to stabilise the bone? | STABILISERS |
| A soft tissue that connects bone to bone? | LIGAMENTS |
| Any movement resulting in tension being developed at a muscle? | CONTRACTION |
| Abscence of tension in a muscle? | RELAXTION |
| A muscle contraction where there is no change in its length | isometrically |