How do muscles work in pairs to make parts of the body move?

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Aylin

8 January, 09:42

How do muscles work in pairs to make parts of the body move?

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Danika Mckay · Answer 1

Muscles work in pairs to move a bone.

Skeletal muscles only PULL in one direction. For this reason they always come in pairs. When one muscle in a pair contracts, to bend a joint for example, its counterpart then contracts and pulls in the opposite direction to straighten the joint out again.

Seamus Howe · Answer 2

Answer: Muscles work in pairs to move a bone.

Skeletal muscles only PULL in one direction. For this reason they always come in pairs. When one muscle in a pair contracts, to bend a joint for example, its counterpart then contracts and pulls in the opposite direction to straighten the joint out again.