7 - Pelvic Girdle

Question 1

What does the pelvic girdle consist of?

Answer 1

The two hip bones and the sacrum

Question 2

What are the three main functions of the pelvic girdle?

Answer 2

to transfer forces from the axial skeleton to the lower limbprovide attachment for musclesprotect the pelvic area

Question 3

Where do the hip bones articular with each other anteriorly and posteriorly?

Answer 3

Hip bones articulate with each other anteriorly at the pubic symphysisArticulate with the sacrum posteriorly

Question 4

What is the hip bone formed from?

Answer 4

The fusion of three bones- The illium- The ischium- The Pubis

Question 5

Up to the age of 18,how are the hip bones connected?

Answer 5

Triradiate cartilage in the acetabulum

Question 6

What is the acetabulum?

Answer 6

A concave surface formed from the joining of the ilium, the ischium and pubis. Articulates with the pubis.

Question 7

What is A?

Answer 7

A is the Ilium

Question 8

What is B?

Answer 8

The acetabulum

Question 9

What is C?

Answer 9

The ischium

Question 10

What is D?

Answer 10

The pubis

Question 11

What is A?

Answer 11

Illiac crest

Question 12

What is the use of the iliac crest?

Answer 12

Many of the muscles and fascia of the abdomen attach here

Question 13

What is B?

Answer 13

The illiac fossa

Question 14

What is J?

Answer 14

The Gluteal surface of the illium, to which the gluteal muscles attach

Question 15

What is the ischium composed of?

Answer 15

The body and the ramus (another name for a division)

Question 16

What is O and what does it form part of?

Answer 16

The body of the ischium, forms part of acetabulum

Question 17

What is N?

Answer 17

The ischial ramus

Question 18

What is E?

Answer 18

The ischial tuberosity

Question 19

What is the pubis composed of?

Answer 19

A body and two rami (divisions)

Question 20

What is F?

Answer 20

The pubic symphysis, point of articulation of the two pubi

Question 21

What is L?

Answer 21

Body of the pubis

Question 22

What are K and M?

Answer 22

K - the superior ramus of pubisM - the inferior ramus of the pubis

Question 23

What are I and G?

Answer 23

I - the superior ramus of the pubisG - the inferior ramus of pubis

Question 24

What is H?

Answer 24

Body of ischium

Question 25

What forms the "ring" of the pelvic girdle?

Answer 25

The pubic ami, the acetabulum, the ischium, the illium and the sacrum.

Question 26

What does the ring formation of the pelvic girdle mean?

Answer 26

Fractures occur together - very difficult to break one side without breaking or dislocation the othe

Question 27

What is the most common way to break pelvis??

Answer 27

Direct trauma, or by falls of feat - force is transmitted to pelvis from lower limb

Question 28

Where do fractures occur in the pelvis?

Answer 28

Weaker points, such as the superior and inferior pubic rami, the acetabulum of in the region of the sacroiliac joint

Question 29

What is a common complication of pelvic fractures?

Answer 29

Soft tissue injury - bladder and urethra are relatively close and can be damaged

Question 30

What is the sacroilliac joint?

Answer 30

This