L31 - Functional Anatomy for ExRx

• The standard anatomical position creates clear points of reference which help to avoid confusion when using anatomical terms
• Approximately 360 joints in human skeleton
• Skeletal muscles help you maintain your posture & stabilise joints
• A muscle has 2 ends that each attach to bone: the muscle’s origin & the muscle’s insertion
• Muscle fibre direction matters!
• Understanding muscle fibre direction will help you understand functional movements

  • & enable you to better prescribe muscular fitness & resistance training
• Functional movements are movements based on real world situational biomechanics

  • Much more important for general population