Learners learn more about how muscles work and how biomedical engineers can help keep the muscular system healthy. Following the engineering design process, they create their own biomedical device to aid in the recovery of a strained...

A guide to the physiology of muscle and the dissection of the rat muscular system.

What is the muscular system? Learn how muscles work, the different types of muscles, and how exercising effects muscles.

Learn about the basic organization of the body's organs and the major organ system.

The anatomy of the musculoskeletal system and what the bones, muscles and joints do in our bodies are explained. Interactive diagrams show the internal structure of a bone, and how muscles and joints work together. Major disorders of the...

Learn about the three types of muscle tissue, how a muscle contracts, and how muscles are adapted for exercise. [3:40]

Younger students learn that hitting a baseball requires the use of various brain to body reaction activities and how those compare to the instincts and actions of animals.

From a chapter on Statics and Torque in a Physics textbook. This section of the chapter provides an in-depth discussion of forces and torque in the human body. We learn about muscular force, the importance of posture in preventing back...