The brachialis muscle is located in the upper arm.
It lies underneath the biceps muscle. It acts as a structural bridge between the humerus, which is the bone of the upper arm, and the ulna, which is one of the forearm bones.
The muscle is innervated by both the musculoskeletal nerve and the radial nerve.
In some people, the muscle may appear doubled. Also called the brachialis anticus, its primary action is to flex the forearm muscles at the elbow.
We’re excited to tell you that we’re extending the hours our therapists are available to treat you. We’re also adding new modalities, to give us extra ways to help you enjoy your life to the full!
Jason’s extended hours
Such is the demand for Jason’s services that he is extending his hours at IC Sports Therapies.
Jason is our physiotherapist, and he has a special interest in working with young people with sports injuries, and rehabilitation. He has also recently started to use Shockwave Therapy which has been found to cause benefits in the treatment of a number of injuries.
Jason’s availability has increased with additional hours every weekday morning, from 8:00 until noon, in addition to Tuesday and Thursday afternoons.
Shockwave Therapy
Shockwave Therapy offers fast pain relief and mobility restoration. Together with being a non-surgical therapy with no need for painkillers, this makes it an ideal therapy to speed up recovery and cure various indications causing acute or chronic pain. Read more on what it does and how it works at our Shockwave Therapy page.
Nicki, Jason, Colin and Lisa are all available to be booked during their scheduled hours, to help you experience the benefits of Shockwave Therapy.
Hot Stone Relaxation Massage
Nicki recently completed Hot Stone Massage training with the Australian School of Remedial Therapies, and can now give you that extra relaxing Hot Stone treatment – ideal for the coming cold winter days!
The hours for booking a Hot Stone Massage are 8:00am-5:00pm, weekdays.
Colin and Massage
Our Personal Trainer and Pilates instructor, Colin Parish, has recently added qualifications in Massage to his skill set.
Colin is no longer with IC Sports Therapies, and we wish him well in his future..
Introducing Kym
Kym Dyer joins the IC Sports Therapies team as a Beauty Therapist, making you feel and look great with our Moorlife range.
By joining us, Kym hopes to help clients look good and feel great in their own skin. While unwinding and relaxing, in a peaceful environment.
Kym is no longer with IC Sports Therapies, and we wish her well in her future.
Balance testing
Testing a patient’s balance by assessing their Left/Right weight distribution
90% of our clients experience significant improvement in their balance by following a targeted exercise program designed to strengthen areas identified in the assessment process.
Balance testing and training is available during our normal business hours.
“Technically, the statement, muscle weighs more than fat is false. The truth is that when placed on a scale, one pound of fat is going to weigh the same as one pound of muscle – just like one pound of bricks is going to weigh the same as one pound of feathers. Where the confusion comes in is that muscle and fat differ in density (muscle is about 18% more dense than fat) and one pound of muscle occupies less space (volume) than one pound of fat.
So yes, muscle seems to weigh more because there is a difference in the volume between the two. When a cubic inch of muscle and a cubic inch of fat are measured, the cubic inch of muscle will weigh more. As you add compact muscle mass to the body, body weight may increase. However, pound for pound, muscle and fat weigh the same and when tracking progress of a fitness program, it is very important to look at all markers of improvement, and not just the numbers on the scale.
These diagrams visually express the differences between muscle and fat densities
1) Muscle = more dense
Structure of a skeletal muscle
2) Fat = less dense
Cross-section of fat tissue
3) Cross section of a skeletal muscle (200x) showing the muscle fibres (red) and the fat cells (white)
Cross-section of skeletal muscle
Note that the fat cells are less dense than the muscle cells and take up more volume.”
The biggest muscle in the human body is the gluteus maximus- your butt
The smallest is the stapedius. It is thinner than a thread of cotton and is located in your ear
The reason for goosebumps is the contraction of small muscles located in your hair’s roots
You use 17 muscles in order to smile, and 43 to frown
The fastest muscle group in the human body is the one responsible for blinking. Thanks to them you are able to blink up to 5 times a second
You use up to 200 muscles in order to take a single step
The strongest muscle in the human body is located in the jaw and its name is the the masseter muscle
Your muscles are normally around 40-50% of your body weight
Every half a kilo (1 lb) of muscle you gain, your body burns an extra 50 calories a day
The fibres you already know about can support up to 1,000 times their own weight
75% of the muscle is water
Producing human speech takes 72 different muscles
The human tongue consists of sixteen separate muscles, not one as many people think.
Did you know that your muscles have their own memory? This is why once you learn how to ride a bike, you can never forget it, no matter how long you haven’t done it.
Muscles produce up to 85% of your body’s heat. In fact they produce enough daily heat to boil 2 pints of water for an hour.
Dads who interact more with their baby in their first few months of life could have a positive impact on their baby’s cognitive development.
In a study, published in the Infant Mental Health Journal, researchers from Imperial College London, King’s College London and Oxford University looked at how fathers interacted with their babies at three months of age and measured the infants’ cognitive development more than a year later.
They found that babies whose fathers were more engaged and active when playing with them in their initial months performed better in cognitive tests at two years of age. The researchers say that while a number of factors are critical in a child’s development, the relatively unexplored link between quality father-infant interactions at a young age may be an important one.
Professor Paul Ramchandani, from the Department of Medicine at Imperial and who led the research, said: “Even as early as three months, these father-child interactions can positively predict cognitive development almost two years later, so there’s something probably quite meaningful for later development, and that really hasn’t been shown much before.”
In the study, researchers recorded video of parents interacting with their children, with mothers and fathers playing with their babies without toys, at three months, and then during a book-reading session at two years of age. The videos were then observed independently by trained researchers, with different researchers at three months and 24 months grading the fathers on their interactions.
At two years of age, they scored the baby’s cognitive development using the standardised Bayley mental development index (MDI) – which involved tasks such as recognising colours and shapes.
After analysing data for 128 fathers, and accounting for factors such as their income and age, they found a positive correlation between the degree to which dads engaged with their babies and how the children scored on the tests. Dads with more positive outlooks were also more likely to have babies who performed better on the MDI scales.
What’s more, the positive link between involved dads and higher infant MDI scores were seen equally whether the child was a boy or a girl, countering the idea that play time with dad is more important for boys than girls, at an early age.
[Read more of the article by Ryan O’Hare, at the Imperial College London’s website]
IC Sports Therapies have gained another way to help you – Shockwave Therapy.
Shockwave Therapy
Shockwave Therapy offers fast pain relief and mobility restoration. Together with being a non-surgical therapy with no need for painkillers, this makes it an ideal therapy to speed up recovery and cure various indications causing acute or chronic pain.
Shockwave Therapy helps us treat your
Tennis Elbow
Golf Elbow
Jumpers Knee / Patellar Tendonitis
Achilles Tendonitis
Plantar Fasciitis
Supraspinatus Tendinitis
Calcific Supraspinatus Tendinitis
Trochanter Pain Syndrome
Tibial Stress Syndrome
and it has several other applications to speed up your recovery.
Read more on what it does and how it works at our page about Shockwave Therapy, and book by clicking the button below.
Hurrah! Such is the demand for Jason’s services that he is extending his hours at IC Sports Therapies.
Jason has a special interest in working with sports injuries and rehabilitation. In particular he’s interested in injuries involving muscular and joint problems in the lower limbs. When treating these injuries he uses a combination of soft tissue therapy, joint mobilisations, ultrasound and a graded exercise program in order to rehabilitate you the client and get you back to your sports and activities as soon as possible.
He has also recently started to use Shockwave Therapy which has been found to cause a benefit in a number of injuries, including Plantar Fasciitis, Achilles Tendinitis, and Tennis and Golfers elbow, as well as all other Tendinitis Conditions.
Here at IC Sports Therapies we also have a multifaceted team whose modalities include Remedial and Relaxation Massage, Personal Training and Pilates Classes, to assist you in getting you back to your sport.
Triceps Brachii Muscles – the muscles used to straighten your arm
The Triceps Brachii muscles are located on the back of the humerus and more commonly referred to as the triceps. They derive their name from a Latin phrase meaning “three headed arm muscle”, due to the fact that the triceps muscles have three muscle heads and therefore have three separate origin attachment points. These three heads are called the Lateral, Medial and Long and they connect the Humerus, Scapula and the >Ulna. The Triceps Brachii muscles are primarily responsible for the extension of the elbow joint (straightening of the arm). They are the largest muscles in the upper arms.
As with the Bicep muscle which has two heads and therefore two origin points, the three-headed Triceps muscle has three different origin points. These origin attachment points are as follows;
1. The Long head arises from the lower part of the Glenoid Cavity which is a shallow depression on the scapula where the head of the Humerus fits. This head is responsible for giving the Triceps Muscle the horse shoe shape.
2.The Lateral head which arises from the upper half of the outside posterior surface of the humerus.
3.The Medial head which arises from the dorsal and inside posterior of the humerus and can usually only be visible closer to the elbow joint as it is mostly covered by the Lateral and Long heads.
A 2008 study[1] concluded that muscular power decreased by up to 19% at a dehydration level of 3% (that’s 3% of total body weight). Interestingly, the study participant’s perception of fatigue increased by a massive 70%!
What happens when you dehydrate?
Research shows that as little as 1 percent dehydration negatively affects your mood, attention, memory and motor coordination. Data in humans is lacking and contradictory, but it appears that brain tissue fluid decreases with dehydration, thus reducing brain volume and temporarily affecting cell function.
Normal water needs range drastically due to a number of factors, such as body composition, metabolism, diet, climate and clothing.
Surprisingly, the first official recommendation about water intake was made as recently as 2004. According to the Institute of Medicine, the adequate water intake for adult men and women is 3.7 and 2.7 litres per day, respectively.
Around 80 percent of total daily water should be obtained from any beverage (including water, caffeinated drinks and alcohol!) and the remaining 20 percent from food.
But of course, this is just a rough guide. Here’s how to monitor your own hydration:
Track your body weight and stay within 1 percent of your normal baseline. You can work out your baseline by averaging your weight (just out of bed, before breakfast) on three consecutive mornings.
Monitor your urine. You should be urinating regularly (more than three to four times per day) and it should be a pale straw or light yellow colour without strong odour. If less frequent, darker colour or too pungent, then drink more fluids.
Be conscious about drinking enough fluids. Your fluid consumption should prevent the perception of thirst.
[1] Active Dehydration Impairs Upper and Lower Body Anaerobic Muscular Power – Jones, Leon C; Cleary, Michelle ; Lopez, Rebecca M; Zuri, Ron E; Lopez, Richard, Journal of Strength & Conditioning Research: March 2008 – Volume 22 – Issue 2 – pp 455-463
