Week 12 Scholarly Questions and Analytical Thinking
Knee joint

What type of joint is the knee?

What is a condyle?
What is an epicondyle?
What is a sesamoid bone? Is the patella this type of bone?
Does the fibula articulate with the femur or patella?
Is the fibula considered part of the knee?
What are the two joints at the knee?
What are the 'receptacles for the medial femoral condyle and lateral femoral condyle (attached to the tibia)
Name all of the movements at the knee?
What four muscles extend the knee?

PLEASE KNOW THE ORIGIN AND INSERTION OF THE RECTUS FEMORIS, VASTUS LATERALIS, VASTUS INTERMEDIUS, VASTUS MEDIALIS, SEMIMEMBRANOSUS, SEMITENDINOSUS, BICEPS FEMORIS, GASTROCNEMIUS, SARTORIUS, ANTERIOR TIBIALIS

What quadriceps muscle extends the knee and flexes the hip?
What quadriceps muscles ONLY extend the knee?

What muscles EXTEND the hip AND FLEX the knee?
Name the muscle; The long head extends the hip and flexes the knee and the short head flexes the knee?
What muscle has this action; it does knee flexion and ankle plantar flexion?

What muscle's actions are a combination of hip flexion, abduction, lateral rotation and knee flexion?

Which quadriceps muscle has an origin on the hip?

Which hamstring muscle does external rotation of the hip?

The hamstring muscle group contributes to what type of pelvic tilt rotation?
Which two hamstring muscles are on the medial side of the femur?

What are the knee internal rotator muscles?

What is the one KNEE external rotator?

What are the actions of the rectus femoris?

What is the main action of the vastus lateralis, vastus medialis and vastus intermedius?

YOU CAN LEARN ALL OF THIS IF YOU STUDY YOUR KINESIOLOGY EVERY DAY.