Which tissue transmits muscular force to bone?

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Which tissue transmits muscular force to bone?

Muscles generate force, and that force must be transferred to the skeleton to create movement. Tendons are the structures that do this: dense, collagen-rich cords that attach a muscle to a bone. When the muscle contracts, the tendon pulls on the bone, producing the movement at the joint. Cartilage cushions joint surfaces, ligaments connect bones to other bones to stabilize joints, and bone is the rigid framework that bones move about; none of these transmit the active pulling force from muscle to bone like tendons do.

Muscles generate force, and that force must be transferred to the skeleton to create movement. Tendons are the structures that do this: dense, collagen-rich cords that attach a muscle to a bone. When the muscle contracts, the tendon pulls on the bone, producing the movement at the joint.

Cartilage cushions joint surfaces, ligaments connect bones to other bones to stabilize joints, and bone is the rigid framework that bones move about; none of these transmit the active pulling force from muscle to bone like tendons do.

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