BONES OF THE LOWER BODY
BONES THAT ARTICULATE IN THE TIBIOFEMORAL JOINT
WHAT IS THE FEMUR, TIBIA, AND PATELLA?
THIS LOWER LEG BONE TAKES 90% OF THE WEIGHT OF THE BODY.
What is the TIBIA?
MOST ANTERIOR AND SUPERFICIAL LOWER LEG MUSCLE
What is TIBIALIS ANTERIOR?
2-HEADED CALF MUSCLE
What is the GASTROCNEMIUS?
ATTACHES TO THE TIBIAL TUBEROSITY
What is PATELLAR LIGAMENT/TENDON?
THINNEST BONE OF THE BODY IN PROPORTION TO ITS LENGTH
What is THE FIBULA?
THESE BONES MAKE UP THE REARFOOT
What are the CALCANEUS AND TALUS?
A MUSCLE THAT IS BELIEVED TO BE THE EVOLUTIONARY REMAINS OF A LARGER PLANTAR FLEXOR
What is PLANTARIS
THE KEY THAT UNLOCKS THE KNEE
What is POPLITEUS?
REFERS TO THE BIG TOE
What is HALLUCIS?
BONES OF THE MID-FOOT
WHAT ARE THE MEDIAL, MIDDLE, LATERAL CUNEIFORMS, CUBOID, AND NAVICULAR?
THIS BONE HAS THE FOLLOWING BONY LANDMARKS: PERONEAL TROCHLEA AND SUSTENTACULUM TALI.
What is THE CALCANEUS
ACTS ON THE HIP AND IS AN ANTAGONIST TO ITSELF IN MEDIAL AND LATERAL ROTATION
What is GLUTEUS MEDIUS?
THESE 3 MUSCLES FORM THE PES ANSERIUNS TENDON
What is SARTORIUS, GRACILIS, and SEMITENINOUSUS?
GREEK MYTHOLOGY GAVE THIS STRUCTURE ITS COMMON, NOT ANATOMICAL, NAME
What is THE CALCANEAL TENDON, AKA THE ACHILLES TENDON?
6 OF THESE SPECIALIZED BONES ARE FOUND IN THE LOWER LIMBS AT THE KNEE AND BIG TOE.
What are SESAMOID BONES?
INCREASES THE FORCE AND FUNCTION OF THE QUADRICEPS.
What is THE PATELLA?
INTRINSIC MUSCLES FOUND ON THE DORSAL SURFACE OF THE FOOT
What are EXTENSOR DIGITORUM BREVIS, EXTENSOR HALLICUS BREVIS, and DORSAL INTEROSSEI?
MUSCLES IN THE POSTERIOR COMPARTMENT OF THE LOWER LEG
What are the TIBIALIS POSTERIOR, FLEXOR DIGITORUM LONGUS, FLEXOR HALLICUS LONGUS?
THE COMMON TERM FOR GENU VALGUM
What is KNOCK-KNEE'D?
The average Q angle of men and women.
What is ~15° for males and 20 ° for females
THIS BONE VARIES BY GENDER
What is the PELVIS?
THE ONLY MUSCLE CONNECTING THE TRUNK TO THE LOWER LIMBS
What is the PSOAS muscle?
What are the hamstring muscles?
NAME OF THE KINESTHETIC PROCESS THAT LOCKS THE KNEE INTO EXTENSION
What is the SCREW HOME MECHANISM?