Lower Extremities Flashcards
What are the boundaries and contents for the femoral triangle?
Sartorial - Lateral
Adductor Longus - Medial
Inguinal ligament - Superior
Femoral Artery
Femoral Vein
Lymph Nodes
What are the components of the pelvic girdle?
- Sacrum
- Right/left hip bones (ilium)
- Pubic symphysis
What are the three components of the hip bone?
- Ilium
- Ischium
- Pubis
What are the major holes in the hip bone?
- False and True Pelvis
- Pelvic inlet and Outlet
- Sacrotuberous ligament
- Sacrospinous ligament
- Greater and lesser sciatic foramen
- Obturator foramen
What is the main attachment site for muscles which abduct and laterally rotates the hip?
Greater Trochanter
What is the main attachment site for muscles which flexes the thigh?
Lesser Trochanter
What connects the Trochanter section anteriorly?
InterTrochanteric line
What is the continuation of the gluteal tuberosity on the femur?
Linea Aspera
What connects the trochanters posteriorly?
InterTrochanteric crest
Where is the nutrient foramen of the femur?
Just medial to the location at which the linea aspera bifurcates into the medial/lateral supracondylar lines
Where is the adductor tubercle? What is significant about it?
Medial side of the lateral head of femur
Can be fractures off (avulsion fracture) ins trained adduction of hip against resistance
What type of tissue surrounds the patella during development?
Tendon
What specific structures envelopes the patella?
- Quadriceps tendon
- Knee joint capsule
What is Gerdy’s Tubercle?
Anterolateral tibial tubercle
Attachment of iliotibial tract
What structure is associated with Osgood Schlatter’s Disease?
- Tibial tuberosity -> insertion point for quadriceps
“Growing pains”
