Q1: What is the most active muscle in the body?

Answer: the Suboccipital

Q2: How many muscles are there approximately?

Answer: 640

Q3. How many vertebrae do we have, not including the sacrum?

 Answer: 24

Q4. Is Range of Motion determined by the muscle, the joint or the connective tissue?

Answer: the joint

Q5. When you sit up from your chair what’s the main muscle group used?

Answer: the gluteals

Q6: What is a trigger-point?

Answer: A nerve bundle

Q7: Where is the piriformas muscle?

Answer: An external rotator of the hip. Can be cause of sciatica pain.

Q8. What is the largest nerve in the body:

Answer: the sciatic nerve

Q9. Which is the only part of the body that has no vascular supply?

Answer: the Inverterbral disk. It is filled with water and nutrients.

Q10. How many litres of lymphatic fluid do we have in our systems?

Answers: 3 litres

Q11. The posture of the head on the shoulders has a huge bearing on posture. How much does it weigh?

Answer: Between 15 – 20 pounds.

12. What is the longest muscle in the body?

Answer: Sartorius

13. How much more can you stretch a muscle from its rested state?

Answer: x 1.6

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