Pelvic Girdle Flashcards
Supports weight of body, passes forces to/from spine, supports/protects pelvic viscera, provides attachments for muscles, and bony portion of birth canal.
Pelvic Functions
Draw a line between the sacral promontory posteriorly and the superior border of the pubic symphasis.
Pelvic Inlet
Draw a line from the tip of the coccyx to the inferior surface of the pubic symphasis.
Pelvic Outlet
There are no organs within the _____ pelvis.
False
Lies between the pelvic inlet and the pelvic outlet.
True Pelvis
Contains portions of GI tract, urinary tract, and some reproductive organs. Birth canal.
True Pelvis
Heart Shaped. Taller. Funnel Shaped.
Male Pelvis
Oval Shaped. Less Funnel Shaped. Acetabula are further apart. Wider.
Female Pelvis
Synovial, non axial joint (gliding), between the sacrum and ilium. Transmit weight of upper body through the vertebral column to the hip bones. (very stable).
Sacroiliac Joint (SI)
Very minimal motion. ______ base of the sacrum moves anteriorly and inferiorly, causing inferior sacrum and coccyx to move posteriorly.
Nutation
Opposite of Nutation
Counternutation
Fibrocartilage Disk. Little movement, except during child birth.
Pubic Symphasis.
Pelvis tilts forward, moving the ASIS anterior to the pubic symphasis.
Anterior Tilt
Pelvis tilts backward, moving the ASIS posterior to the pubic symphysis.
Posterior Tilt
Pelvic Rotation occurs in the ______ plane around the ______ axis.
Transverse, vertical
