Health Sciences 2300A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: List Of Flexors Of The Human Body, Lesser Trochanter, Common Peroneal Nerve

• School: Western University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: Health Sciences 2300A/B
• Professor: Jamie Melling

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Lecture 6d: skeletal muscles muscles of the pelvic girdle and lower limbs. Identify muscular compartments: pelvic girdle, thigh, lower leg. Within each compartment identify: muscular attachments, common nerve supply, muscular function. Full sit up can be dangerous at the first 15 degree when you lift yourself off the ground you rely on the iliopsoas ( a powerful hip flexor. It attaches to the lumbar vertebra if taxed it can cause a slip disk. Psoas major and minor: originate off the transverse process of the lumbar vertebrae, runs down inferiorly and joint with the iliacus which joint the iliac crest. The muscles are the sartorius, gracilis and semitendinosus: flexes and laterally rotates the hip flexion of the knee. Rectus femoris: it is a quadriceps muscle but also acts a hip flexor, attaches at the anterior inferior iliac spine runs down and joins the with rest of the.