Dance Anatomy & Kinesiology

The Skeletal System and Its Movements 29 Joint Stability and Mobility Joint stability can be defined as the ability of a joint t ...

30 Dance Anatomy and Kinesiology “Stand So That Your Bones Support Your Weight” S ome forms of modern dance encourage students t ...

The Skeletal System and Its Movements 31 Closed and Open Kinematic Chain Movements Begin standing in fifth position with the arm ...

32 Dance Anatomy and Kinesiology Study Questions and Applications Describe how long bones grow in width and in length. List and ...

33 The Muscular The Muscular SystemSystem CHAPTER TWO © Angela Sterling Photography. Pacific Northwest Ballet dancer Carrie Imle ...

34 Dance Anatomy and Kinesiology I n this chapter we examine the muscular system. It is the muscular system that produces moveme ...

35 TABLE 2.1 Three Types of Muscle Tissue A. Smooth muscle B. Cardiac muscle C. Skeletal muscle Appearance Closely aligned, long ...

36 Dance Anatomy and Kinesiology an associated nerve. The classic response of muscle to this stimulus is to produce tension or c ...

The Muscular System 37 muscle cannot lengthen on its own; rather a force such as gravity or the contraction of another muscle is ...

38 Dance Anatomy and Kinesiology the active sites on the actin are blocked. The sliding filament theory holds that activation of ...

The Muscular System 39 repeated hundreds of times in a second to produce the shortening of the sarcomere associated with muscle ...

40 Dance Anatomy and Kinesiology such muscles has led to the use of the terms tonic or postural to describe muscles that have a ...

The Muscular System 41 the biceps brachii, pectineus, adductor brevis, and the very long and thin sartorius muscle. In contrast, ...

42 Dance Anatomy and Kinesiology (Rasch and Burke, 1978), and the Achilles tendon can resist tensile loads equal to or greater t ...

The Muscular System 43 attachment and distal attachment. While this termi- nology works well for the extremities, it is sometime ...

44 Dance Anatomy and Kinesiology which muscles have broad attachments, the arrow would be drawn to bisect the broad attachment. ...

The Muscular System 45 It is easier to understand rotary motion if we look at how a lever works. Put simply, a lever is a rigid ...

46 Dance Anatomy and Kinesiology from the line of action of the force to the axis of rotation or potential rotation. This latter ...

The Muscular System 47 is called the mechanical advantage (EA/RA). If the effort arm and resistance arm were of equal length, th ...

48 Dance Anatomy and Kinesiology of motion of the end of the lever and a potential advantage in terms of speed of movement of th ...