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Skeletal muscles are voluntary muscles, which means you can control what they do. Your leg won't bend to kick the soccer ball unless you want it to. These muscles help to make up the musculoskeletal (say: mus-kyuh-low-skel-uh-tul) system — the combination of your muscles and your skeleton, or bones.
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These muscles hold the skeleton together, give the body shape, and help it with everyday movements (they are known as voluntary muscles because you can control their movement). They can contract (shorten or tighten) quickly and powerfully, but they tire easily and have to rest between workouts.
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Excitability of the H-reflex in the relaxed flexor carpi radialis (FCR) muscle was tested during voluntary oscillations of the ipsilateral foot at five evenly spaced delays during a 600 ms cycle.
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2. Anaerobic ATP turnover in soleus and gastrocnemius muscles was slower during continuous voluntary contraction than during continuous electrically induced contraction (0.36 +/- 0.04 versus 0.63 +/- 0.05 mmol (kg wet wt)-1 s-1, P < 0.05, in soleus;
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A new method for analyzing signals from leg muscles to monitor voluntary movement is featured in this study. The voluntary response index (VRI) was tested on 69 individuals with incomplete spinal ... While lying on their backs, participants completed 3 sets of 10 voluntary movements. The study was repeated by six partici-
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...affect all their muscles, including their...and deflate is the muscle called the diaphragm. It's a voluntary muscle just like your biceps...other voluntary muscle in your body...affect voluntary muscles and make them extremely...
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Involuntary muscle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Involuntary muscles are smooth, unicycle nucleated, non-branching muscles that are not directly controllable at will. These muscles are not as free as the voluntary muscles such as those in the arms,...
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