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Levers - Coggle Diagram
Levers
Components
The load
object requiring moving
The fulcrum
joint around which the movement occurs
The effort
muscular force we use to move the object
The lever
The bones of the skeleton
Uses
Move heavier objects
Move objects farther and faster
Planes
Frontal
Adduction: motion towards the midline
Abduction: motion away the midline
Elevation: Movement towards a superior position
Depression: Movement to a lower position
Inversion: lifting the lateral border
Line dividing the body vertically into front and back
Transverse
Line dividing he body horizontally from front to back
Rotation internal or external towards the vertical axis of the bone
Pronation is the rotation from hand and wrist medially from the bone
Supination rotation is the hand and wrist laterally from the bone
Sagittal
Line dividing the body vertically into left and right sides
Flexion
Decrease of the angle between two bones
Extention
Increase of the angle between two bones
Systems in the body
In the body they (the bones) are used to move heavy objects or to move objects quickly.
This could be when running, we are the objects and the levers will be the legs.
