Week 3

Question 1

classification of the hip joint

Answer 1

Triaxial Ball and socket

Question 2

The orientation of both the femoral head and neck and the acetabulum influences what

Answer 2

Mobility

Weight bearing forces (femoral head)

Question 3

Name the 3 external ligaments of the coxal joint

Answer 3

Iliofemoral, pubofemoral, ischiofemoral

Question 4

Name the 2 internal ligaments of the coxal joint

Answer 4

ligamentum teres

transverse acetabular ligament

Question 5

Nerves innervating the coxal joint

Answer 5

femoral
obturator
superior gluteal
sciatic

Question 6

Hilton’s Law (1877)

Answer 6

The same trunks of nerves whose branches supply the groups of muscles moving a joint furnish also a distribution of nerves to the skin and over the insertions of the same muscles and … the interior of the joint receives its nerves from the same source

Question 7

Coxa vara vs coxa valga

Answer 7

Coxa Vara 135