homeostasis in the muscular system
The Muscular system is an organ system that gives humans and animals the ability to produce movement, using the muscles located throughout the body. It works with the skeletal system to provide form, support, stability, and movement to the body.
The Muscular system is composed of the body's muscles, cartilage, tendons, ligaments, joints, and other connective tissue that supports and binds tissues and organs together. Its primary functions include supporting the body, allowing motion, and protecting vital organs.
The Muscular system is also able to adapt to situations where the bodily functions are put under stress from external stimuli, through homeostasis. The aim of homeostasis within the Muscular System is to retain heat and equilibrium within the body, in which the muscular system acts as producer of this change.
Specifically, the main functions for homeostasis within the muscular system are movement, support, and production of heat. The muscular skeletal system is comprised of more than four hundred separate muscles; accounting for more than 40 percent of body weight, which help the system achieve homeostatic changes.
Movement
The production of movement within the muscles allows a person to perform the final step in negative feedback systems: making an adjustment in conditions. Movement is used to refrain or escape from impending danger (e.g. Fire, falling objects), especially from unfavourable conditions (e.g. Intense sunlight), and to eliminate wastes and unwanted materials (e.g. Carbon dioxide, splinters).
The influence of homeostasis on movement is also important in taking positive actions. It allows a person to move forward, obtain, and use items and find conditions that promote the well being of the body and the quality of life. These needs include the basic physical needs (e.g. Food, water, shelter) and other needs (e.g. Social interactions, recreational activities). Movement allows people to rearrange their environment and construct and repair valuable and decorative artifacts to suit human requirements and desires.
Support
The Muscular system provides support when muscle contractions prevent the movement of a part of the body. Support maintains proper positional conditions of parts of the body so that they function adequately. For example, muscle contractions can maintain an upright posture, which includes holding the bones in place and preventing the protrusion of the organs in the lower body. With proper posture, circulation is improved because blood vessels are open rather than pinched shut, and respiration is assisted because the lungs have room to inflate easily. Holding the head up positions the eyes for viewing the surrounding environment.
Heat production
Heat production is essential for maintaining equilibrium within bodily functions and a fairly stable body temperature, due to most people living in climatic environments that are cooler than their normal body temperature. Therefore, the body is always losing heat to the environment, just as warm objects or substances, such as warm food, lose heat and become cool. However, if the temperature of the body is allowed to cool off, the rate of chemical reactions responsible for sustaining life functions (e.g. heartbeat, respiration, brain activity) decreases at a rapid rate, as does the ability to perform effective feedback messages and responses. Therefore, to reduce the quantity of heat lost during bodily functions, the amount of heat lost must be balanced by an equal amount of heat production.
Heat is produced by a number of chemical reactions within the body, but the muscular system is the main producer. One reason for this is that the muscular system is one of the largest systems, usually accounting for one-third or more of the body mass. Second, the muscular system is also one of the most active systems in the body, as it facilitates steady muscular contractions that help maintain posture, even when the body is resting. The muscular system also adjusts contraction rate of the muscles to adapt to changing environment and stress the body is put under from exercise and other external conditions. The system is especially active and constantly produces more heat when a person is forcefully contracting during vigorous exercise. The muscular system still performs many chemical reactions even when the muscles are relaxed, which is why it remains warm.
The Muscular system is composed of the body's muscles, cartilage, tendons, ligaments, joints, and other connective tissue that supports and binds tissues and organs together. Its primary functions include supporting the body, allowing motion, and protecting vital organs.
The Muscular system is also able to adapt to situations where the bodily functions are put under stress from external stimuli, through homeostasis. The aim of homeostasis within the Muscular System is to retain heat and equilibrium within the body, in which the muscular system acts as producer of this change.
Specifically, the main functions for homeostasis within the muscular system are movement, support, and production of heat. The muscular skeletal system is comprised of more than four hundred separate muscles; accounting for more than 40 percent of body weight, which help the system achieve homeostatic changes.
Movement
The production of movement within the muscles allows a person to perform the final step in negative feedback systems: making an adjustment in conditions. Movement is used to refrain or escape from impending danger (e.g. Fire, falling objects), especially from unfavourable conditions (e.g. Intense sunlight), and to eliminate wastes and unwanted materials (e.g. Carbon dioxide, splinters).
The influence of homeostasis on movement is also important in taking positive actions. It allows a person to move forward, obtain, and use items and find conditions that promote the well being of the body and the quality of life. These needs include the basic physical needs (e.g. Food, water, shelter) and other needs (e.g. Social interactions, recreational activities). Movement allows people to rearrange their environment and construct and repair valuable and decorative artifacts to suit human requirements and desires.
Support
The Muscular system provides support when muscle contractions prevent the movement of a part of the body. Support maintains proper positional conditions of parts of the body so that they function adequately. For example, muscle contractions can maintain an upright posture, which includes holding the bones in place and preventing the protrusion of the organs in the lower body. With proper posture, circulation is improved because blood vessels are open rather than pinched shut, and respiration is assisted because the lungs have room to inflate easily. Holding the head up positions the eyes for viewing the surrounding environment.
Heat production
Heat production is essential for maintaining equilibrium within bodily functions and a fairly stable body temperature, due to most people living in climatic environments that are cooler than their normal body temperature. Therefore, the body is always losing heat to the environment, just as warm objects or substances, such as warm food, lose heat and become cool. However, if the temperature of the body is allowed to cool off, the rate of chemical reactions responsible for sustaining life functions (e.g. heartbeat, respiration, brain activity) decreases at a rapid rate, as does the ability to perform effective feedback messages and responses. Therefore, to reduce the quantity of heat lost during bodily functions, the amount of heat lost must be balanced by an equal amount of heat production.
Heat is produced by a number of chemical reactions within the body, but the muscular system is the main producer. One reason for this is that the muscular system is one of the largest systems, usually accounting for one-third or more of the body mass. Second, the muscular system is also one of the most active systems in the body, as it facilitates steady muscular contractions that help maintain posture, even when the body is resting. The muscular system also adjusts contraction rate of the muscles to adapt to changing environment and stress the body is put under from exercise and other external conditions. The system is especially active and constantly produces more heat when a person is forcefully contracting during vigorous exercise. The muscular system still performs many chemical reactions even when the muscles are relaxed, which is why it remains warm.