Overview. Welfare Support Workers provide support, information and advice to clients on emotional, financial, recreational, health, housing and other social welfare matters, and evaluate and coordinate the services of welfare and community service agencies.verview. Welfare Support Workers provide support, information and advice to clients on emotional, financial, recreational, health, housing and other social welfare matters, and evaluate and coordinate the services of welfare and community service agencies.
abdominal external oblique muscle n. A muscle with origin from the fifth to twelfth ribs, with insertion into the anterior lateral lip of the iliac crest, the inguinal ligament, and the anterior layer of the sheath of the rectus muscle of the abdomen, with nerve supply from the ventral branches of the lower thoracic nerves, and whose action diminishes the capacity of the abdomen and draws the chest down.
The rectus abdominis is enclosed between the aponeuroses of the external and internal obliques and transversus abdominis which form the rectus sheath. The rectus abdominis muscle is innervated by the lower six thoracic nerves. The rectus abdominis is an important postural muscle. With a fixed pelvis, contraction results in flexion of the lumbar spine . When the ribcage is fixed contraction results in a posterior pelvic tilt. It also plays an important role in forced expiration and in increasing intra-abdominal pressure.