A muscular contraction that causes a muscle to shorten as it develops tension is called?
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The answer is D isotonic. Isotonic contraction produces tension and causes the muscle to shorten. It is the usual means of producing body movement.\nIsometric contraction produces tension but the muscle does not shorten.It is used to strengthen joints.
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It is called the sartorius.\n\nIt's a long, ribbon-like muscle that "slants across the front of the upper thigh from the side to the middle and then descends vertically to the knee," flexing, rotating, and abducting along the way to enable the cross-legged sitting posture that is known as the "tailor's position." \n\nA physiology course curriculum page from the University of Arizona about muscle anatomy confirmed that the sartorius, a muscle of the anterior hip and thigh group that is connected to the ilium and the tibia, is the longest muscle.
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a) stretching - the objects "necks" or thins down\n\nb) compression - the objects "bellows" or gets fatter
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c)  to reduce in muscle strains  I think
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For most muscles, contraction occurs as a result of conscious effort originating in the brain. The brain sends signals, in the form of action potentials, through the nervous system to the motor neuron that innervates the muscle fiber. However, some muscles (such as the heart) do not contract as a result of conscious effort. These are said to be autonomic. Also, it is not always necessary for the signals to originate from the brain. Some reflexes are fast, unconscious muscular reactions that occur due to unexpected physical stimuli. Other actions such as locomotion, breathing, chewing have a reflex aspect to them; the brain will start the contractions, but continuation of the movements can become reflexive. The action potentials for reflexes to unexpected stimuli originate in the spinal cord instead of the brain.\nThere are three general types of muscle contractions: skeletal muscle contractions, heart muscle contractions, and smooth muscle contractions.\nFor skeletal muscles, the force exerted by the muscle is controlled by varying the frequency at which action potentials are sent to muscle fibers. Action potentials do not arrive at muscles synchronously, and during a contraction some fraction of the fibers in the muscle will be firing at any given time. Typically when a human is exerting a muscle as hard as they are consciously able, roughly one-third of the fibers in that muscle will be firing at once, but various physiological and psychological factors (including Golgi tendon organs and Renshaw cells) can affect that.\nYou can read more here\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscle_contraction
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The third class (see link for illustration).  The articulation is at one end, the resistance at the other, and the muscle is between, evidently close to the articulation.
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They are called definition cuts. They are the lines that outline the muscles.
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most people call that a muscle spasm.  sometimes it could be a neurological problem, but I know a lot of people who have that at times.  Who knows why?  Maybe you were squinting too much and the muscles are tightening on their own now.
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Basically when you are excersizing your muscles store energy and when your muscles exceed the amount of force that can be put on them you feel an electric shock released from your muscles due to over working your muscles.
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It comes from the muscle having a spasm.
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It involved training the propioceptive receptors to decrease antagonistic muscle contraction-propioceptice receptors sense stretch and tension on the muscle, and feed back signals to increase antagonistic muscular contraction (primarily to stop the muscle from tearing and protecting joints).
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knots are just tension in certain parts of your muscles usually caused by stress
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Tension is a force. It is an external stress tending to pull and object apart. If the force of tension is greater than the inward force of the object, then the object will stretch. Many objects, such as ropes and cables, can only be loaded with tension. If these objects are compressed, then they deform.
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released from muscle stores as a form of energy
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I would call it "shortening" and leave it at that. I know that there are thrust faults (which are low angle reverse faults) there, and that some of the pressure is released by strike-slip faulting in the Tibetan Plateau. The best term might be "Heterogeneous Strain".
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Leg cramps occur when muscles are being used when they are in the resting position due to infrequent strain and it causes the muscle to spas and draw up.
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isometric means same length, for example you tense the muscle without moving it.  \nIsotonic is shortening contraction, for example lifting a weight.\n\nSo a good example of isometric would be holding a tuck position in diving.  \nIsotonic can you found in every sport where you move, so take your pick!