Musculature of the Medial compartment of the Thigh

Question 1

What are the muscles included in the Medial Compartment

Answer 1

• Gracilus
• Adductor Longus
• Adductor Brevis
• Adductor magnus
• Obturator externist

Question 2

What is the main action for the Medial Compartment muscles

Answer 2

Adduction

Question 3

What is the most medial muscle of the medial compartment

Answer 3

Gracilis

Question 4

What is the adductor hiatus?

Answer 4

The opening between the adductor magnus adductor portion and hamstring portion

Question 5

What is the nerve that sandwiches the adductor Brevis muscle?

Answer 5

Obturator Nerve

Question 6

What innervates the adductor longus and adductor Brevis?

Answer 6

Anterior division of obturator nerve

Question 7

What innervation do the gracilis and the obturator externist share?

Answer 7

Obturator nerve

Question 8

What are the attachments for the adductor longus?

Answer 8

• Body of the pubis

- Middle 1/3 of the linea aspera

Question 9

What are the attachments for the adductor Brevis?

Answer 9

• Body of pubis and inferior pubic ramus

- Pectineal line and proximal linea aspera

Question 10

Since the gracilis is most medial, it starts at the ______ and goes to the ______

Answer 10

• Body and inferior pubic ramus

- Superior part of the medial surface of the tibia

Question 11

This muscle is NOT a true hamstring

Answer 11

Obturator Magnus

Question 12

What are the 3 portions of the adductor magnus from superior to inferior

Answer 12

• Adductor minimus
• Adductor portion
• Hamstring portion

Question 13

This muscle is the most powerful adductor of the thigh

Answer 13

Adductor magnus

Question 14

Where does the adductor part of the thigh attach?

Answer 14

To the linea aspera of the femur

Question 15

T/F- The adductor magnus can flex the thigh?

Answer 15

True

Question 16

What are the attachments for the hamstring part of the adductor magnus?

Answer 16

• Ischeal tuberosity

- Adductor tubercles

Question 17

What criteria does the adductor magnus hamstring part not meet to qualify as a hamstring muscle

Answer 17

-Does not cross the knee

Question 18

What innervates the adductor magnus hamstring part

Answer 18

Tibial branch of Sciatic nerve (same as Hamstrings)

Question 19

This canal is a narrow tunnel in the fascia that is deep to the middle 1/3 of the Sartorius muscle

Answer 19

Adductor canal

Question 20

What is the roof of the adductor canal?

Answer 20

Sartorius muscle

Question 21

What is the end of the adductor canal?

Answer 21

Adductor hiatus (where the 2 parts of adductor magnus split)

Question 22

What is the beginning of the adductor canal?

Answer 22

Where the Sartorius muscle contacts the adductor longus muscle

Question 23

What 4 structures enter the canal?

Answer 23

• Femoral artery
• Femoral vein
• Saphenous nerve
• Nerve to vastus medialis

Question 24

What are the only 2 structures that continue on the canal until it reaches the hiatus and continue into the popliteal fossa?

Answer 24

• Femoral vein

- Femoral artery

Question 25

What muscle has to be removed in order to see the adductor hiatus?

Answer 25

Vastus medialis

Question 26

The femoral artery and vein undergo this name change as they pass through the popliteal fossa?

Answer 26

-Popliteal artery and vein

Question 27

What comprises the fascial covering of the structures of the adductor canal?

Answer 27

Anteromedial Intermuscular Septum

Question 28

The external iliac artery travels _______ and _____ to the inguinal ligament?

Answer 28

-Inferiorly and deep

Question 29

External iliac enters the femoral triangle and changes names to…

Answer 29

Femoral artery

Question 30

What is the name of the deep branch of the femoral artery?

Answer 30

Profunda femorus

Question 31

What branches does the Profunda femorus give off?

Answer 31

Circumflex femoral artery

Question 32

The profunda femorus sends _______ to the posterior compartment

Answer 32

Perforating branches

Question 33

Does the posterior compartment have any artery coursing through it?

Answer 33

No

Question 34

Femoral artery–> _________ after it crosses the adductor hiatus

Answer 34

Popliteal artery

Question 35

What are the 2 terminal branches of the popliteal artery?

Answer 35

-Anterior and posterior tibial artery

Question 36

What is the largest branch of the lumbar plexus?

Answer 36

The femoral nerve

Question 37

Where does the femoral nerve originate?

Answer 37

Within the psoas major muscle

Question 38

Where does the femoral nerve travel?

Answer 38

-Lateral to the psoas major on the surface of the iliacus, deep to the middle of the inguinal ligament and into the thigh

Question 39

What is the farthest reaching branch of the Femoral nerve?

Answer 39

Saphenous nerve

enters the adductor canal but exits medially before completing the canal