9/15 Hip Joint - Carter

Question 1

What are the most important arteries to supply the hip joint?

Answer 1

Retinacular arteries

Question 2

What type of joint is the hip joint?

Answer 2

Ball-and-socket

Question 3

What three bones make up the socket of the acetabulum?

Answer 3

Pubis, ilium, ischium

Question 4

What is found within the acetabulum?

Answer 4

A horse-shoe shaped articular cartilage

Question 5

What type of cartilage makes up articular cartilage?

Answer 5

Hyaline cartilage

Question 6

What is the role of the acetabulum labrum?

Answer 6

Increases the SA in contact with the head of the femur (a lip)

Question 7

What two ligaments cover the head of the femur from the posterior view?

Answer 7

Iliofemoral ligament (ilium –> neck of femur)

Ischifemoral ligament (ischium –> neck of femur)

Question 8

What is the largest and strongest of the three external ligaments going from the hip to the femur?

Answer 8

Iliofemoral ligament

Question 9

What are the three ligaments that attach to the femur from the hip

Answer 9

Iliofemoral ligament (P & A)

Pubofemoral ligament (A)

Ischiofemoral ligament (P)

Question 10

What is the number one cause of breaking of the femoral neck in young adults?

Answer 10

Over consumption of alcohol

Question 11

Where does the iliopsoas insert? What’s unique about it?

Answer 11

Inserts on the lesser trochanter of the femur

Iliopsoas is the main flexor of the thigh

Question 12

What happens when avascular necrosis (dead tissue w/o blood) of the femoral head occurs?

Answer 12

Total hip replacement, femoral head is completely shot

Question 13

Where is the Medial pectineus muscle located

Answer 13

Medial compartment of the thigh (not the anterior compartment)