Anatomy of Movement in the Flow of Qi is a comprehensive, fundamental course of both classical and cutting edge study of the Essential Fundamentals of Kinesiology and Movement Behavior Analysis Protocol. This information is beneficial for those in the healing and healthcare profession and can be used as curriculum for those studying to provide healing and care taking services.
This article will cover just one particular topic of interest: The 6 shapes of voluntary muscles.
The shapes of the voluntary muscles is very important, as those shapes lend themselves to the specific movement quality available to the given muscle. Each fiber in the muscle is created and develops by way of a movement that gives is purpose and a work out. Each fiber will support the weight of the movement it is making.
Please use an anatomy book to see the visualization of each of these shapes, as they are unique and the seeing of them will almost be self explanatory as to their function. It will doubly add to your learning experience if you can locate a muscle of the shape being studied and create the movement that makes it contract. Place you hands on the muscle to feel the shape of the contraction and which fibers initiate the action and which other fibers follow through and support the action.
It will also add to your studying to watch people moving and visualize the muscle underlying the movement and the shape of it which specifically supports the movement witnessed.
1. Bipennate - Angled fibers on two sides of a shared tendon. This angling creates great strength and support.(Eg. Vastus intermedius)
2. Fusifor - Straplike, parallel fibers. This shape of muscle creates one movement in one direction.(Eg. sartorius)
3. Multipennate - Many short fibers attach to varied tendon fibers. Similar to Bipennate in the angling of the fibers to the tendon, but the fibers are in many separate bundles, giving it the ability to function at different physical levels. For example as you are going up or down in a squat each of the different bundles will come into play to support the weight of your body and the movement fluidity. (eg. quadriceps femoris)
4. Radiate - Fibers in fanned arrangement. Also called triangular. Provides the ability for the moving part to move in circles or cones, literally radiating.(eg. gluteus minimus)
5. Bipennate - Two origins and two insertions. Provides a strong grounding for the support of the weight held or the support of the limb being moved. (Eg. biceps femoris)
6. Unipennate - Angled on one side of tendon. Similar to bipennate, but more specific to one movement. (eg. peroneus tertius)
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