Hip Anatomy

Question 1

What is pelvic girdle and lower limb

Answer 1

lower limb forms a joint with the trunk at the pelvic girdle

Question 2

What makes up the pelvic girdle

Answer 2

formed from two innominate (hip) bones

Question 3

What is the pelvis

Answer 3

basin shaped structure formed by the pelvic girdle and its associated sacrum

Question 4

What 3 bones fuse to form the innominate hip bones

Answer 4

Ilium, ischium and pubis

Question 5

What is the acetabulum

Answer 5

lateral surface on hip

deep depression that forms the hip joint with the almost spherical head of femur

Question 6

Ilium:

Answer 6

upper flattened part of bone

has iliac crest and ASIS

Question 7

What joint does the ilium form with the sacrum

Answer 7

forms a synovial joint–sacroiliac joint

Question 8

Sacroiliac joint is:

Answer 8

a strong joint capable of absorbing the stresses of weight bearing
tends to become fibrosed later in life

Question 9

What part is the pubis

Answer 9

anterior part of bone

Question 10

Where does the pubis articulate with the other side pubis bone

Answer 10

pubis symphysis

Question 11

What part of the hip is the ischium

Answer 11

inferior and posterior part

Question 12

Where is the union of all 3 hip bones

Answer 12

acetabulum

Question 13

What bears the weight of the body when sitting and what is it

Answer 13

ischial tuberosities– rough inferior projections of the ischia

Question 14

Whats the longest and heaviest bone in the bahdy

Answer 14

femur

Question 15

What type of joint is the hip

Answer 15

ball and socket

Question 16

What encloses the head and most of the neck of the femur

Answer 16

capsular ligament

Question 17

What stabilizes the hip joint without limiting its range of movement

Answer 17

acetabular labrum

Question 18

What is the acetabular labrum

Answer 18

ring of fibrocartilage attached to the rim of the acetabulum

Question 19

What are the 3 main external ligaments

Answer 19

iliofemoral, pubofemoral, ischiofemoral

localized thickening of the joint capsule

Question 20

What attaches the femoral head to the acetabulum

Answer 20

ligamentum teres

not a typo

Question 21

What are the bursae in the hip

Answer 21

iliopsoas bursa, trochateric bursa, gluteus medius bursa and ischiogluteal bursa

Question 22

What are the movements of the hip joint

Answer 22

flexion
extension
abduction
adduction
medial rotation
lateral rotation

Question 23

What muscles flex the hip

Answer 23

psoas, iliacus and sartorius

Question 24

What muscles extend the hip

Answer 24

gluteus max, hams

Question 25

What muscles abduct the hip

Answer 25

gluteus medius and minimus, sartorius

Question 26

What muscles adduct the hip

Answer 26

adductor group (longus, brevis and magnus)

Question 27

What muscles medially rotate the hip

Answer 27

gluteus medius and minimus, adductor group

Question 28

What muscles laterally rotate the hip

Answer 28

gluteus max, quads, obturators

Question 29

What muscles are in the adductor group

Answer 29

Longus, brevus and magnus

Question 30

What are the 4 muscles in the quad group

Answer 30

rectus femoris
vastis lateralis
vastis medialis
vastis intermedius

Question 31

Where does the rectus femoris originate? Where does the other 3 vasti originate?

Answer 31

RF- ilium

V-upper end of femur

Question 32

What is a very strong extensor of the knee joint

Answer 32

Quad group

Question 33

Lots of diagrams

Answer 33

LOTSSS of diagrams