Muscles
Group of four muscles that extend the knee.
What are the Quadracepts?
Largest bone in the human body.
What is the femur?
Stops anterior movement of the knee.
What does the ACL do?
goniometer
Used to determan Range of motion?
Helps knee joints move smothly.
What does the bursa sack do for the knee?
Primary muscles used for foreward locomotion.
What are the hamstrings?
The weight-bearing bone of the lower leg.
What is the tibia?
Stops posterior movement of the knee.
What does the PCL do?
Extension
Knee is moved so leg extends?
Artery posterior to the knee.
What is the poplititeal Artery?
The most superficial quadracep muscle?
What is the Rectus Femoris?
A boney landmark where the patellar tendon connects to the tibia.
What is the tibial tuberosity?
The Thickest collateral ligament in the knee.
What is the MCL.
20 degrees
Normal dorsiflexion of the ankle?
Pes anserine
Medial point in the knee where three muscles conect?
Tendon proximal to the patella.
What is the quadricep tendon?
The concavity at the inferior end of the femur along which the patella glides.
What is the condular notch?
Conects to the tibia tuberosity
Where does the patellar ligament connect?
JHyperextensionof the knee.
x<0 degrees
Hyaline/articulat
What are the two types of cartilage in the knee?
Also called the hacky sack muscle, the muscle responsible for abduction, lateral rotation, flexion and medial rotation of the hip and knee.
What is the sartorius?
The flat region that hold the lateral and medial meniscus.
What is the tibial plateau?
Stops medial movement of the knee.
what does the MCL do?
125 degrees
Normal flexion of the hip?
Reduces fricshion between the synovial joint and articular cartilage.
What does the Synovial membrane do?