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Describe what happens when a muscle contracts.

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During a concentric contraction, a muscle is stimulated to contract according to the sliding filament theory.

This occurs throughout the length of the muscle, generating a force at the origin and insertion, causing the muscle to shorten and changing the angle of the joint.

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