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___ muscles bring about opposite movements of the parts concerned.

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Muscles can only pull and cannot push. This would be a problem if a joint were controlled by just one muscle. As soon as the muscle had contracted and pulled on a bone, that would be it, with no way to move the bone back again. Antagonistic muscles bring the opposite movements to solve this problem.


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