Connective Tissue & Joints
Connects bones to bones
What are ligaments?
pair of muscles from the lumbar spine that connects to the inside surface of the pelvis and inserts into the top of the femur that flexes and laterally rotates the femur at the hip
What is the Illiopsoas?
The muscles that connect from the spine to the shoulder blades and draw the shoulder blades together:
What are the rhomboids?
These muscles lie between the tailbone, pubic bone, and sit bones. They support the weight of the internal organs and are an important core muscle:
What are the pelvic floor muscles?
Relative term for position of body parts meaning facing away from the midline of the body:
What is Lateral?
Connects muscles to bone
What are tendons?
The group of muscles that includes biceps femoris, semitendinosus and semimembranosus, located between the pelvis and the knee on the back of the upper leg, which function to flex the knee and extend the hip as well as externally rotate the tibia when the knee is bent:
What are the hamstrings?
The group of muscles and tendons that help the shoulder and arm rotate, holds the bones in the shoulder together, and helps move the arms and lift them overhead:
What is the rotator cuff?
The muscle that is responsible for extension, adduction and transverse extension or horizontal abduction in the shoulder joint:
What is the Latissimus dorsi?
Relative term for position of body parts meaning closer to the midline of the body:
What is medial?
The multi-layered connective tissue that surrounds all of inside systems
What is Fascia?
The four-part muscle group composed of Rectus femoris, vastus medialis, vastus intermedius and vastus lateralis that extends the knee and flexes the hip:
What are the quadriceps?
This bone lays on the back of the ribcage and anchors the shoulder girdle to the spine through fascia and muscular attachments:
What is the Scapula?
The primary lateral flexor of the spine:
What is the Quadratus lumborum?
This is where we desire to feel the stretch:
What is the belly of the muscle?
These are often referred to as the “sits bones” in yoga classes:
What is the Ischial tuberosity?
The three muscles that constitute the buttocks
What are the gluteus maximus, medius, and minimus?
Allows the shoulder to move by connecting the collarbone (clavicle) to the breastbone (sternum)
The most superficial of the abdominal muscles, divided into four bellies, primary spinal flexor, “tucks” the pelvis:
What is the Rectus abdominis?
The type of muscle contraction occurs to create movement
What is Isotonic movement?
The anterior (front) extremity of the illiac crest of the pelvis. This part of the pelvis can be felt through the skin and used as an anatomical landmark, the “headlights” of the hips:
What is the Anterior Superior Iliac Spine (ASIS)?
The large muscle group that originates near the sacrum and extends up the whole back. It includes longissimus, iliocostalis, and spinalis and functions to extend the spine:
What is the Erector spinae?
The muscle between the shoulder blades along the back of the ribcage that holds the shoulder blades in position against the ribcage and provides support when holding arms up or bearing weight on the upper body:
What is the Serratus Anterior?
The muscles that connect from the sides of the rib cage to the front of the pelvis. They compress the abdomen, support the spine and pelvis, and are the primary muscles that rotate the trunk in a twist:
What are the Internal obliques and External obliques?
The type of muscle contraction occurs when there is tension in the muscle, but no movement in the associated joints
What is Isometric movement?