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Muscle Design and Task Performance

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Muscle Design and Task Performance

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Skeletal muscles are length- and velocity-sensitive force producers, constructed of

a vast array of sarcomeres. Muscles come in a variety of sizes and shapes to


accomplish a wide variety of tasks. How does muscle design match task performance?
In this review, we outline muscle's basic properties and strategies that are used
to produce movement. Several examples are provided, primarily for human muscles, in
which skeletal muscle architecture and moment arms are tailored to a particular
performance requirement. In addition, the concept that muscles may have a preferred
sarcomere length operating range is also introduced. Taken together, the case is
made that muscles can be fine-tuned to perform specific tasks that require
actuators with a wide range of properties.

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