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| when the occipitalis is contracted it raises the eyebrows, and wrinkles the skin of the forehead. when the occipitalis is relaxed it draws the skin anteriorly |
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| it pulls the skin posteriorly |
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| together they extend the head by flexing the cervical portion of the vertebral column. alone they turn the head in the direction opposite of the contraction. |
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| acts with the masseter to raise and pull back the mandible |
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| raises and pulls back the lower mandible, closes the mouth and clenches the teeth. it also may move the mandible from side to side. |
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| closes and protrudes the lips, pulls the lips back against the teeth. |
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| elevates the head when contracting together, and rotates the head when contracting singly |
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| elevates and helps the scapulae rotate when adducting the arm. |
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| depresses and abducts the scapula, rotates it down and stabilizes |
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| adducts, flexes and medially rotates the humerus inward |
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| abducts the scapula and rotates it upward, lifts the ribs when the scapula is fixed |
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| compresses the abdomen and can rotate the vertebral column |
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| INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL OBLIQUES |
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| flexes the lumbar region of the vertebral column and compresses the abdomen |
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| elevates and/or adducts the scapula, rotates the scapula up or down, draws the head back when the shoulders are fixed |
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| elevates and rotates the scapula downward while adducting the arm |
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| it laterally rotates and abducts the arm at the shoulder |
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| laterally rotates, extends, and adducts the humerus at the shoulder and stabilizes the elbow joint |
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| assists the extension of the hmerus, medially rotates the humerus, helps rotate the scapula downward |
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| extends, adducts, and medially rotates the arm at the shoulder. also draws the arm inferiorly and posteriorly |
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| connective tissue that acts as the origin for muscles of the lower back |
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| abducts the arm at the shoulder, flexes and medially rotates the arm at the shoulder, and extends and laterally rotates the arm at the shoulder |
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| flexes the arm and forearm at the shoulder and elbow respectively and rotates the radius to supinate the hand |
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| flexes the forearm at the elbow |
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| antagonistic to the brachialis, extends the forearm and arm at the elbow and shoulder respectively |
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| extends and abducts the hand at the wrist functioning in radial hand movement at the wrist |
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| pronates the forearm and aids in flexing the forearm at the elbow |
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| flexes the forewarm at the elbow and supinates and pronates the forearm at the joint btwn the radius and ulna so the forearm is in a neutral position |
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| flexes and abducts the hand at the wrist |
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| aids the deltoid when abducting the arm at the humerus |
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| extends the four medial digits, spreads the digits as it extends them, extends the wrsit if the fingers are flexed |
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| flexes and rotates the thigh away form the midline at the hip |
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| flexes and draws the thigh toward the midline at the hip, medially rotates the thigh. |
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| laterally rotates the thigh toward the midline and flexes the thigh at the hip |
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| flexes the calf at the knee and flexes, abducts, and laterally rotates the thigh if flexed at the hip |
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| extends the four lateral toes and everts the foot at the ankle |
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| EXTENSOR DIGITORUM LONGUS |
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| extends the leg at the knee |
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| extends the leg at the knee. also flexes the thigh at the hip. |
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| laterally rotates and extends the thigh at the hip |
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| flexes the leg at the knee, extends the thigh at the hip, and medially rotates the thigh |
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| flexes the leg at the knee, extends the thigh at the hip, and rotates the thigh laterally if flexed. |
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| serves as the insertion point for the superficial muscles of the calf |
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| extends the leg at the knee |
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| planar flexes the foot at the ankle and flexes the leg at the knee |
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| plantar flexes the foot at the ankle |
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| dorsally flexes the foot at the ankle and inverts and adducts the foot |
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| everts and abducts the foot, also weak probides plantar flexion of the foot at the ankle and everts the foot at the intertarsal joints |
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| flexes the leg at the knee, extends the thigh at the hip, and medially rotates the tibia |
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| connects the tibial tuberosity to the quadriceps tendon |
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