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flexor muscle

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Noun1.flexor muscleflexor muscle - a skeletal muscle whose contraction bends a joint
skeletal muscle, striated muscle - a muscle that is connected at either or both ends to a bone and so move parts of the skeleton; a muscle that is characterized by transverse stripes


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The hip flexor muscle (iliopsoas) may be rubbing over the pelvic wall.
Current methods of manual muscle testing are inadequate to isolate differences between the SCM and deep neck flexor muscle groups, both of which work in concert to produce a cervical flexion moment)5 Although the SCM mnscle makes the largest contribution of all the neck flexors to performing neck flexion, electromyographic (EMG) studies provide evidence that DNFs are active in this position and that they remain contracted in static and small phasic flexion contractions.
Works on: core postural muscles, inner/outer thighs, buttocks, hamstrings, quadriceps, hip flexor muscles.
 
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