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Pelvis and Thigh

Pelvis and Thigh. Kinesiology Flash Cards. Directions. The first slide asks a question. The second slide answers the question. Use these slides like flash cards to test your core knowledge. Question. How many bones are in the thigh? Name them. Answer.

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Pelvis and Thigh

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  1. Pelvis and Thigh Kinesiology Flash Cards Associated Bodywork & Massage Professionals

  2. Directions • The first slide asks a question. • The second slide answers the question. • Use these slides like flash cards to test your core knowledge. Associated Bodywork & Massage Professionals

  3. Question • How many bones are in the thigh? • Name them. Associated Bodywork & Massage Professionals

  4. Answer • There is only one bone in the thigh. • It is the femur. Associated Bodywork & Massage Professionals

  5. Question • What action at the knee does the quadriceps muscle group have? Associated Bodywork & Massage Professionals

  6. Answer • The quads action at the tibiofemoral (knee) joint is extension of the leg. Associated Bodywork & Massage Professionals

  7. Question • Place these items in order from superior to inferior: • Patella • Quadriceps femoris • Patellar ligament • Tibial tuberosity • Quadriceps tendon Associated Bodywork & Massage Professionals

  8. Answer • In order from superior to inferior they are: • Quadriceps femoris • Quadriceps tendon • Patella • Patellar ligament • Tibial tuberosity Associated Bodywork & Massage Professionals

  9. Question • What is the longest muscle in the human body? Associated Bodywork & Massage Professionals

  10. Answer • The sartorius muscle, with its length spanning from the ASIS to the pes anserine. Associated Bodywork & Massage Professionals

  11. Question • What muscle is nicknamed the “tailor” muscle? Associated Bodywork & Massage Professionals

  12. Answer • Sartorius • The nickname comes from the position that tailors stand in when working at their tall tables, which is caused by the action of the sartorius. (Slight hip flexion, slight hip abduction, hip lateral rotation, and slight knee flexion.) Stand firmly on the left leg. Laterally rotate the right leg, cross the right foot over the left, and touch the toes of the right foot to the ground, just lateral to the left foot. This comfy position is the tailor position. Associated Bodywork & Massage Professionals

  13. Question • Which one of the four quadriceps muscles crosses the hip joint? Associated Bodywork & Massage Professionals

  14. Answer • Of the quads, only the rectus femoris crosses the hip joint. All of the quads cross the knee joint. Associated Bodywork & Massage Professionals

  15. Question • What muscle group is the antagonist of the quadriceps? Associated Bodywork & Massage Professionals

  16. Answer • The hamstrings, the posterior thigh muscles, are the antagonists of the quadriceps. Associated Bodywork & Massage Professionals

  17. Question • Name the muscles of the hamstrings. Associated Bodywork & Massage Professionals

  18. Answer • Semimembranosus • Semitendinosus • Biceps femoris (long head and short head) Associated Bodywork & Massage Professionals

  19. Question • What are the medial hamstrings? Associated Bodywork & Massage Professionals

  20. Answer • The “Semis” • Semimembranosus • Semitendinosus Associated Bodywork & Massage Professionals

  21. Question • What are the lateral hamstrings? Associated Bodywork & Massage Professionals

  22. Answer • Biceps femoris Associated Bodywork & Massage Professionals

  23. Question • In general, the hamstring muscle group originates from the ischium. There is one head of the hamstring that does not originate at the ischium, but rather from the posterior femur. What is that muscle? Associated Bodywork & Massage Professionals

  24. Answer • The short head of the biceps femoris. • The long head indeed does attach at the ischial tuberosity with the other hamstrings. Associated Bodywork & Massage Professionals

  25. Question • What muscle’s tendons make up the pes anserine? Associated Bodywork & Massage Professionals

  26. Answer • Semitendinosus • Gracilis • Sartorius Mnemonic Device: Slippery Green Snakes Associated Bodywork & Massage Professionals

  27. Question • Where will you find the pes anserine? Associated Bodywork & Massage Professionals

  28. Answer • At the medial, proximal portion of the tibia, just distal to the knee joint. Associated Bodywork & Massage Professionals

  29. Question • What muscle, whose name means graceful, is the most medial muscle of the thigh? Associated Bodywork & Massage Professionals

  30. Answer • The gracilis Associated Bodywork & Massage Professionals

  31. Question • What muscle is the prime mover of flexion of the hip? Associated Bodywork & Massage Professionals

  32. Answer • The iliopsoas Associated Bodywork & Massage Professionals

  33. Question • What two muscles combine to make the iliopsoas? Associated Bodywork & Massage Professionals

  34. Answer • The iliacus and the psoas major. Associated Bodywork & Massage Professionals

  35. Question • What part of the iliopsoas attaches at the anterior portion of the 12th thoracic vertebra and all lumbar vertebra? Associated Bodywork & Massage Professionals

  36. Answer • The psoas major origin Associated Bodywork & Massage Professionals

  37. Question • What part of the iliopsoas attaches to the iliac fossa? Associated Bodywork & Massage Professionals

  38. Answer • The origin of the iliacus muscle Associated Bodywork & Massage Professionals

  39. Question • What is the insertion of the iliopsoas? Associated Bodywork & Massage Professionals

  40. Answer • The lesser trochanter of the femur Associated Bodywork & Massage Professionals

  41. Question • What is the only bone to have trochanters? Associated Bodywork & Massage Professionals

  42. Answer • The femur Associated Bodywork & Massage Professionals

  43. Question • Which muscle of the quadriceps muscle group is synergistic with the iliopsoas? Associated Bodywork & Massage Professionals

  44. Answer • The proximal part of the rectus femoris also has flexion of the hip as an action, making the iliopsoas and the rectus femoris synergists. Associated Bodywork & Massage Professionals

  45. Question • Where are the deep six lateral rotators located? Associated Bodywork & Massage Professionals

  46. Answer • The deep six lateral rotators are found deep to the gluteus maximus. Associated Bodywork & Massage Professionals

  47. Question • What is the action of the deep six lateral rotators? Associated Bodywork & Massage Professionals

  48. Answer They laterally rotate the thigh at the hip. Associated Bodywork & Massage Professionals

  49. Question • Name the “deep six” lateral rotators, from superior to inferior. Associated Bodywork & Massage Professionals

  50. Answer • Piriformis • Gemellus superior • Obturator internus • Gemellus inferior • Obturator externus • Quadratus femoris Associated Bodywork & Massage Professionals

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