your muscles are anchored to bone through ligaments and tendons. If you undergo an amputation, how do the muscles react to no longer having that anchoring point?

Question

Do the muscles just sit bunched up and floppy in your limb or are there ways they anchor it to new points in surgery?

In: Biology

Answer 1

The muscles generally just sit there and atrophy (shrink) through non-use. A muscle doesn’t necessarily need to be attached at both ends. Look at your tongue, for example.