That’s because hip flexors—the muscles that allow flexion at the hip joint—play ... allowing you to bring your knee toward your chest as you run,” explains Amanda Nurse, an elite ...

The trapezius muscle can act as a fixator when the biceps is flexing the elbow joint. The abdominals can act as fixators to stabilise the body for hip and knee movements. Preparation and execution ...

Dr F Ghaffarinejad, Rehabilitation Faculty, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, PO Box 71345-1733, Shiraz, Iran; ghafarif{at}sums.ac.ir1 Background: Muscle stretching is widely used in sport ...

Introduction Muscle power of the Plantarflexors has been shown to be ... with AT for both test speeds and positions (p = 0.004 for concentric 90º/sec in knee flexion, p ≤ 0.001 for all other test ...

Muscles transfer force to bones through tendons ... their hamstrings contract to flex the knee while the quadriceps lengthens to allow the movement. The hamstrings are the agonist and the ...