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What are the roles of the skeletal system in movement? - Answer - support soft tissue - provides storage areas for minerals and fats - produces blood cells Abduction - Answer Movement away from the midline of the body Adduction - Answer Movement toward the midline of the body Circumduction - Answer circular movement of a limb at the far end Flexion - Answer bending a joint Extension - Answer increases the angle of a joint hyperextension - Answer Excessive straightening of a body part dorsiflexion - Answer bending of the foot or the toes upward plantar flexion - Answer bends the foot downward at the ankle internal rotation - Answer Rotation of a joint toward the middle of the body. external rotation - Answer Rotation of a joint away from the middle of the body. What are important functions of muscles? - Answer - motion - maintenance of posture - support - heat production What is ergonomics? - Answer This is the study of the relationship between human physiology and the physical environment. What are things you should assess for mobility? - Answer - general ease of movement

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NSGA 142 exam 2
What are the roles of the skeletal system in movement? - Answer - support soft tissue

- provides storage areas for minerals and fats

- produces blood cells



Abduction - Answer Movement away from the midline of the body



Adduction - Answer Movement toward the midline of the body



Circumduction - Answer circular movement of a limb at the far end



Flexion - Answer bending a joint



Extension - Answer increases the angle of a joint



hyperextension - Answer Excessive straightening of a body part



dorsiflexion - Answer bending of the foot or the toes upward



plantar flexion - Answer bends the foot downward at the ankle



internal rotation - Answer Rotation of a joint toward the middle of the body.



external rotation - Answer Rotation of a joint away from the middle of the body.



What are important functions of muscles? - Answer - motion

- maintenance of posture

- support

- heat production



What is ergonomics? - Answer This is the study of the relationship between human physiology
and the physical environment.



What are things you should assess for mobility? - Answer - general ease of movement

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