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Muscle action- posterior leg Flashcards

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Semitendinosus

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Flexes leg; bends knee (hamstring 1)

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Semimembranosus

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flexes leg; bends knee (hamstring 2)

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Biceps femoris

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Flexes leg; bends knee (hamstring 3)

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Soleus

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Plantar flexes foot

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Gastrocnemius

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Plantar flexes foot; flexes knee

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Gluteus Maximus

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extends and laterally rotates thigh at hip; abducts thigh

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Gluteus medius

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abduction of thigh at hip; medial and lateral rotation of thigh

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Gluteus minimus

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Abduction of thigh at hip; medial rotation of thigh

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Adductor muscles of hip

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Abducts hip; includes: adductor longus, adductor brevis, adductor magnus, pectineus, gracilis

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