Anterior and Medial Thigh Flashcards
What are the actions of Adductor Longus?
Adduction of the thigh
What is this muscle and its innervation?
Gracilis Obturator nerve (L2, 3)
What muscle is highlighted?
Rectus femoris
What is this muscle and its innervation?
Adductor Brevis
Obturator (L2, L3, L4)
What muscle is highlighted and what is its innervation?
Pectineus Femoral nerve (L2, L3) and sometimes recives branches from obturator nerve
What is the origin of vastus medialis?
Intertrochanteric line
Medial line aspera
What are the attachments of adductor magnus?
Ischiopubic ramus and ischial tuberosity
Inserts into the linea aspera, the medial supracondylar line and onto the adductor tubercle
What are the attachments of the iliacus?
Iliac crest, iliac fossa, ala of sacrum, anterior sacroilliac ligament
Attaches to the psoas tendon and the lesser trochanter of the femur
What are the areas the branches of the femoral nerve supply?
Muscular branches - supplies the muscles in the anterior thigh
Articular branches - to the hip and knee
Cutaneous - anteromedial thigh
Gives off saphenous nerve which is a terminal cutaneous branch to the anteromedial aspect of the knee, leg and foot
What muscle is highlighted?
The Vastus Medialis
What are the compartments of the thigh and what is the role of the muscles in each compartment?
Anterior compartment - Flexes hip, extends knee
Medial compartments - Adducts hip
Posterior compartment - Extends hip, flexes knee
What are the attachments of Sartorius?
ASIS
Inserts onto the medial surface of tibia
What is this muscle and its innervation?
Iliacus muscle Femoral nerve (L2, L3)
What muscle is highlighted?
Vastus intermedius
What are the boundaries of the adductor canal?
Sartorius
Vastus medialis
Adductor Longus
What are the hip adductors?
Gracilis Adductor Longus Adductor Brevis Adductor Magnus Obturator externus (doesnt adduct but is with this group in the medial compartment)
What is the parent artery of the obturator artery?
Internal iliac
What are the functions of pectineus?
Adduct and flex the hip
Assists with medial rotation
What are the attachments of adductor longus?
Body of the pubis
Inserts into the middle 1/3 of the linea aspera
What are the functions of the gracilis muscle?
Adducts the hip
Flexes the knee
What arteries contibute to the cruciate anastomosis?
Inferior gluteal
Medial and lateral circumflex arteries
1st perforating branch (profunda femoris)
Describe the course and branches of the obturator artery?
Passes through the obturator canal to reach the medial compartment of thigh. Gives of anterior and posterior branches.
Anterior - branches to muscles of the medial compartment
Posterior - branches to the muscles attached to the ischial tuberosity
What is the common insertion for all quadriceps muscles?
Quadraceps tendon then to the tibial tuberosity via the patellar ligament
What is the course taken by obturator nerve?
Runs along the lateral wall of the pelvis and passes through the obturator canal to enter the thigh
Splits into anterior and posterior branches relative to the adductor brevis
Gives off muscular branches to the medial thigh e.g. branches to the adductors
Anterior branch gives off cutaneous branches to the middle part of the medial thigh