How your muscular system works - Emma Bryce
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Each time you take a step, 200 muscles work in unison to lift your foot, propel it forward, and set it down. It’s just one of the many thousands of tasks performed by the muscular system: this network of over 650 muscles covers the body and is the reason we can blink, smile, run, jump, and stand upright. So how does it work? Emma Bryce takes you into the body to find out.
If our muscles didn’t generate opposing forces, in what specific ways would that limit us?
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Meet The Creators
- Educator Emma Bryce
- Director Viviane Leezer
- Animator Viviane Leezer, TMC Media
- Art Director Viviane Leezer
- Storyboard Artist Viviane Leezer
- Producer TMC Media
- Associate Producer Jessica Ruby
- Content Producer Gerta Xhelo
- Editorial Producer Alex Rosenthal
- Narrator Pen-Pen Chen
