The Pros And Cons Of The Musculoskeletal System
Once signals from the brain initiate a movement, motor neurons coupled to individual muscle fibers link the pathways of the musculoskeletal system. Action potentials are the nerve impulses generated, these transport neural information to the muscles, eventually causing the muscle fibers to contract. The connective tissue at the joint draws the bone into movement along the designated pathway dictated by the skeletal structure as the muscle contracts. This could be flexion, rotation, pronation and supination, or lateral sliding (Healthyliving.azcentral.com, 2017).