Essays on Elbow Joint

1. Introduction 1.1 Abstract Contained in this paper is a report on a research conducted on the development of an assistive arm robot for patients with Cerebral Palsy. Presented in the report is a brief description of the disease, a historical perspective of the use of assistive robots and the general description of the research together with the challenges faced during execution of the research and a conclusion which carries recommendations for further research in the same topic. 1.2 Background Cerebral Palsy is a devastating disease that causes unremitting muscle destruction/impairment. The disease begins at childhood but it impacts on a victim ...

1. Principle of specificity: only the muscles trained will respond. a. Provide a concrete example of the principle of specificity to athletics/sports preparation, personal fitness training, or rehabilitation. 2 points. Specifity is the change that occurs in the body as a result of training. Specificity in athletics comes in when the athlete trains repeatedly performing specific activities in preparation for the exact requirements of a sport. Distant runners require doing exercises that would make them adapt to sustained running. On the other hand, throwers need to train in a way to build up their muscles in size and thickness in order to ...

Movement of the forearm

Movements of various parts of the body is mainly controlled by the group of muscles located around the parts of the body and crossing the joints that hold the part of the body and these group of muscles are usually supplied by nerves that coordinate the activities of those muscles and the movements that tend to occur at such region. Depending on the types of movements that usually occur at the part of the body, the group of muscle around the region usually, function to move the body at an opposite direction. Those muscles are usually located to run ...