Online Muscles & Movement (Human Biology II) Course

Enhance your career with more in depth knowledge of  how and why the body moves.

Lay a foundation for further learning in areas of biomechanics, muscular fitness or physiotherapy.

There are 8 lessons in this course:

1. How Nerves Work
   • Structure of the nervous system
   • Neuron function
   • Anatomy of neurons
   • How muscles workwith nerves
   • Basic body functions
2. Nerves and Motor Skills
   • Overview
   • Synapses
   • Neurotransmitters
   • Neural circuits
   • Science of motor skills
   • How motor skills develop
   • Physiology of the central nervous system
   • Homeostatic reflex arc
   • Spinal chord and spinal nerves
   • Central sensiomotor programs
3. Skeletal Muscle
   • The skeleton
   • How bones form
   • Anatomy of bone
   • Fractures and fracture healing
   • Types of bones
   • Bone joints
   • Skeletal muscles
   • Smooth muscle
   • Striated voluntary muscle
   • Cardiac muscle
   • Relationship between muscle and skeleton
4. Muscle Organisation
   • Parts of the muscular system: tendons, deep fascia, epimysium etc
   • Types of muscle fibre
   • Muscle types: striated, smooth, cardiac
   • Skeletal muscle types: slow oxidative, fast glycolic, etc
   • What muscle cause what movement
5. Muscular Movement
   • How do muscles move
   • How skeletal muscles produce movement
   • How levers are used to produce muscular movement
   • Group actions
   • Terminology
   • Muscle groups and movements
6. Muscular Development
   • Muscular body function
   • Energy systems
   • Muscular strength
   • Muscular endurance
7. Muscle Flexibility
   • Introduction
   • Flexibility
   • Excitation contraction of muscle
   • Different levels of flexibility
   • Internal flexibility
   • External flexibility
8. Muscles and Posture
   • Posture
   • Gravity support
   • Net movement
   • Benefits of posture
   • Good posture
   • Postural mechanisms
   • Slow and fast twitch muscles
   • Nervous system feedback
   • Posture improvement
   • Ergonomics

Each lesson culminates in an assignment which is submitted to the school, marked by the school's tutors and returned to you with any relevant suggestions, comments, and if necessary, extra reading.

Aims:

• Explain how nerves cause reactions in the human body.
• Explain how the nervous system affects motor skill performance.
• Explain the function and structure of skeletal muscle in the human body.
• Describe the organisation of muscle tissue in the human body.
• Describe the mechanics of muscular movement.
• Explain development of muscular strength and muscular endurance.
• Selecting muscular flexibility exercises.
• Explain significance of muscles to posture and general well being.

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