TYPES

TYPES
OF
OF
MUSCLES
MUSCLES
Reporter: Jinky P. Refurzado
BSA 2-10

Skeletal
Muscles
Muscles that produce the
movements of the skeletons,
they are sometimes called
voluntary muscles.

Skeletal Muscles Attachments:

Origin attachments that moves

the least

Insertion attachments that moves

the most

cross section of a skeleton muscle and

its attachment to the bone

Nerve Fibers
Motor fibers

2 Types:
alpha fibers- derived from large cells in
the anterior gray horn
gamma fibers- derived from smaller
cells in the spinal cord

Sensory fibers

myelinated and arise from

specialized sensory endings lying
within the muscle or tendons called
muscle spindles or tendon spindles.

Sympathetic fibers

nonmyelinated and pass to the

smooth muscle in the walls of the
blood vessels supplying the
muscle.