What are:
1. Gluteus medius
2. Gluteus minimus
3. Gluteus maximus
These muscles have ____ in common.
Piriformis
Gluteus maximus
Gluteus medius
Gluteus minimus
Tensor fasciae latae
What is abduction?
1 of 6 Deep Hip Outward Rotators
Largest of the 6 lateral rotators and & most
likely to become chronically shortened
15% of the population has all or part of the sciatic nerve running through this muscle
Synergist to gluteus maximus
What is the piriformis?
They all laterally rotate
All insert at the greater
trochanter
What are the lateral rotators of the hip?
What is excursion?
Posterior sacrum, coccyx, posterior iliac crest, external ilium to the posterior gluteal line and the gluteal tuberosity and iliotibial band
What are the attachments of gluteus maximus?
Tensor Fascia Latae actions (3)
What are
Abducts the hip
Flexes the hip
Medially rotates the hip?
What is Obturator Internus?
Pain in the rear muscle
What is the piriformis?
What is lateral flexion?
Attachments of gluteus medius include (2)
What are External ilium between the anterior and posterior gluteal lines and greater trochanter?
Strongest hip extensor
One of the strongest muscles of the body
May be 1” thick
Power muscle: climbing stairs, rising from sitting, running
Synergistic to piriformis
What is gluteus maximus?
Quadratus Femoris actions (2)
What are: Laterally rotates the hip &
Adducts the hip?
This muscles name (the green highlighted one)
What is Gemellus Inferior?
30. What is supination?
31: What is pronation?
External ilium between the anterior and inferior gluteal lines and greater trochanter
What are the attachments of gluteus minimus?
Gluteus Maximus origins (4)
What are
Posterior sacrum
Posterior coccyx
Posterior iliac crest
External ilium to the posterior gluteal line?
Obturator Externus origins (4)
What are Obturator membrane
Superior pubic ramus
Inferior pubic ramus
Ischial ramus ?
Origins:
Obturator membrane
Superior pubic ramus
Inferior pubic ramus
Ischial ramus
What is Obturator Externus?
What is opposition?
Name the muscle and 4 actions
What is gluteus medius? Abducts the hip, Medially rotates the hip, laterally rotates the hip, anteriorly and posteriorly tilts the pelvis.
Origins (2) and Insertions (1) of the Tensor Fascia Latae
Origins: What are Anterior iliac crest
Anterior superior iliac crest (ASIS)?
Insertions: What is Iliotibial band (ITB)
(thickened fascial band located on lateral thigh)?
Strongest hip flexor
What is Psoas Major?
Psoas Major origins (3)
What are Origins:
Transverse processes of T12-L5
(anterior body)
Vertebral bodies of T12-L5
Intervertebral disks of lumbar vertebrae
33. What is adduction?
34. What is abduction?