Chapter 10.4, Problem 26AYP

Summary Introduction

To determine:

The list of muscles that cause flexion and extension of the elbow with their location.

Introduction:

Flexion and extension are two types of body movements that either increase or decrease the angle between the two body parts. When a movement results in decreasing the angle between the two body parts, it is called flexion. On the contrary, when a movement results in increasing the angle between two body parts, it is called an extension.