Functional Groups

• Muscle with the major responsibility for a certain movement...?

  Agonist
• Muscle that opposes or reverses the movement of the agonist...?

  Antagonist
• Muscle that helps a prime mover by adding a little extra force too the same movement or reducing undesirable movements that might occur...?

  Synergist
• Synergist that immobilize a bone or a muscle's origin so that the prime mover has a stable base on which to act...?

  Fixator
• Functional Groups Ex: The biceps brachit is the ____ of elbow flexion.

  Agonist
• Function GroupsEx: The triceps act as ____ for the biceps in elbow flexion

  Antagonist
• Functional Groups Ex: ____ that run from the axial skeleton to the scapula can immobilize the scapula.

  Fixator