Spindles - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

AFAA Group Fitness exam 2024 with 100% correct answers muscle spindles sense quick changes in muscle length and cause contraction - correct answer Why can ballistic movements be dangerous? Speak out, posture, microphone - correct answer Three ways to prevent voice nodules 10 exercise danger signs - correct answer nausea/vomiting dizziness/unusual fatigue tightness or pain in the chest loss of muscle control/staggering gasping rash/hives blurred vision acute

AEA Exam UPDATED Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers ____________ is defines as the maximum force that can be exerted by a muscle or muscle group against a resistance - Correct Answer- muscular strength what type of stretching activates the muscle spindles? - Correct Answer- Ballistic Stretching What are muscle spindles? - Correct Answer- specialized receptors in the muscle that monitor muscle length change and the speed of muscle length change

__________: impulses from the brain stem and spinal cord to the thalamus Correct Answer-Second-order neurons ________ learning occurs when a connection is made between two stimuli Correct Answer-Associative Present in ______muscle fibers are muscle spindles consisting of several slowly adapting _______ nerve endings that wrap around 3 to 10 specialized muscle fibers and detected changes in the muscle. Correct Answer-intrafusal / sensory ____ would detect irritation on the skin if you di...

What is the difference in threshold between muscle and nerve fibers? Correct Answer-The nerve fiber has a lower threshold for activation than muscle fibers What is the relationship between the length of a tendon and its compliance? Correct Answer-Longer tendons means it has more compliance Are nerves myelinated? Correct Answer-Yes Are muscles myelinated? Correct Answer-No they aren't What is curare? How does it work? Correct Answer--A drug that if taken can produce paralysis by inte...

Proprioception - correct answer The body's ability to to sense the relative position of adjacent parts of the body Ex: when walking our feet give us proprioception about the type of surface we are on. Mechanoreceptors - correct answer specialized structures that recognize pressure in tissue and transmit signals to sensory nerves. Muscle Spindles - correct answer sensory receptors in the muscles that are parallel to the muscle fibers and are sensitive to change in muscle length. Spindle...

Decreased time base (analysis time/display time/epoch) or increase paper speed, to spread out the waveforms to better resolve the fast activity and spikes. How did this change improve the sample above in question 134 ? (In the sample below, the same data is modified and reformatted again. What parameter changed in the following sample? How does this help?) a. Better localization of focus b. Better resolution of spike morphology and anterior dominance c. Enhanced analysis of EKG monitor d. B...

PMC Prep Exam 2 Questions & Answers 2024/2025 What is the fungi cell wall composed of? - ANSWERSchitin, glucans, mannans What is a single-cell fungi that is nonfilamentous, unicellular, and ovaloid? - ANSWERSYeast What is a multicellular fungi that is characterized by hyphae? - ANSWERSMold Involves deep epidermis and keratinized body areas? - ANSWERSCutaneous Involves dermis, subq tissue and muscle, fungal growth produces a lesion? - ANSWERSSubcutaneous Limited to outer layer...

Interrelation of nervous, muscular, and skeletal systems to create movement - correct answer Kinetic chain brain and spinal cord, coordinates activity of body parts - correct answer Central nervous system all nerves branching off spinal cord, extending out to the body - correct answer Peripheral nervous system sense distortion in body tissues - correct answer mechanoreceptors mechanoreceptor that senses changes in tension - correct answer Golgi tendon organs mechanoreceptor that s...

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Knee-jerk (patellar) reflex - ANS: -Tapping the patellar with a hammer abruptly stretches the quadriceps femoris muscle of the thigh -stimulates numerous muscle spindles in the quadriceps -sends an intense volley of signals to the spinal cord Describe in detail two language areas in the brain - ANS: Wernicke's area: -responsible for understanding speech -allows you to recognize words and translate those words into thoughts -Damage to this area allows you to be able to speak but inst...