Muscles contract in different ways to produce a range of movements: Isotonic contraction – involves the muscle producing tension and controlling the speed of the muscular contraction.

Deltoid Abduction of the shoulder (moving the arm outwards and away from the body) Outward arm action in a jumping jack Rotator cuffs A group of stabilising muscles of the shoulder which helps to ...

Part two of two teaching films about human anatomy which is devoted to the action of the skeletal muscles in producing movement of the bones at the joints of the human skeleton. It uses live ...