As you are cooking, you accidentally touch the burner of the stove. You jerk your hand away by contracting muscles in your arm to pull your forearm toward the arm. This movement is flexion.

Question

As you are cooking, you accidentally touch the burner of the stove. You jerk your hand away by contracting muscles in your arm to pull your forearm  toward the arm. This movement is flexion.

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Flexion is the movement of a joint that decreases its angle. In this scenario, the muscles in the arm contract to pull the forearm towards the arm, which is a flexion movement.

As You Are Cooking, You Accidentally Touch the Burner of the Stove