FASCIAL COMPARTMENTS OF THE THIGH

Question 1

• narrow, strap-shaped
• covers the femoral artery in the middle 1/3 of the
  thigh

Answer 1

SARTORIUS

Question 2

• thigh: FABER

- knee: FIR

Answer 2

sartorius

Question 3

• hip flexion/trunk flexion

Answer 3

ILIOPSOAS

Question 4

• Hip: flexion and adduction (FAD)

Answer 4

PECTINEUS

Question 5

• sometimes receives nerve supply from obturator
  nerve (bc. not everyone has same orientation of the
  nerve and muscle)

Answer 5

pectineus

Question 6

• knee: powerful extensor

Answer 6

QUADRICEPS FEMORIS

Question 7

4 muscles of quadriceps femoris?

Answer 7

rectus fem, vastus - med, int, lat

Question 8

• straight head and reflected head

- can also move the hip

Answer 8

RECTUS FEMORIS

Question 9

• strengthens lateral side of knee

Answer 9

VASTUS LATERALIS

Question 10

• lowest fibers are horizontal (vastus

medialis oblique)

Answer 10

VASTUS MEDIALIS

Question 11

• Articularis genus (part of the muscle that
  inserts to the synovial membrane of knee)
• retract the membrane superiorly during
  knee extension

Answer 11

VASTUS INTERMEDIUS