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What bones are used when you throw a ball?
The joints you use to properly throw a baseball include those in your fingers and thumb, wrist (radius-ulna and carpals), elbows, shoulders, spine (vertebral arches and bodies), hips, knees (femur, tibia and patella), ankles (tibia-fibula and talus), and feet and toes.
How does your skeleton help us move?
Allows movement: Your skeleton supports your body weight to help you stand and move. Joints, connective tissue and muscles work together to make your body parts mobile.
How does the skeleton support the body in sport?
The skeletal system plays a very important part to helping sporting performance. It acts as a framework for muscle attachment and some bones protect vital organs, e.g. the cranium protects the brain. Other bones produce red and white blood cells. The Skeletal system also supports the body and determines shape.
How does the skeleton help us in class 3?
It provides: SUPPORT for the body – The hardness of the bones provides a strong framework the helps us stand upright, and anchors muscles and organs. PROTECTION of the internal body organs – The ribs protect the heart, lungs, kidneys, and liver; the vertebral column surrounds the spinal cord.
How does throwing a ball work?
The process of throwing acts very much the same way. During the loading phase of throwing your body is rotating your arm backwards using the combined forces from your body until the point where your arm stops rotating backwards and it starts rotating foreword at a very high speed from the torque.
What does the skeleton do?
Bones provide a rigid framework, known as the skeleton, that support and protect the soft organs of the body. The skeleton supports the body against the pull of gravity. The large bones of the lower limbs support the trunk when standing. The skeleton also protects the soft body parts.
How are bones useful to us Class 2?
Bones shape our body and help us to stand up straight. Muscles are attached to bones; they help us walk and run and smile. All the bones in our body make up our skeleton – from the top of our skull to the tips of the phalanges at the end of our toes.