Assignment task:
1. What does the segments of the lower extremity include?
2. Name the nine joints of the lower extremity
3. What articulates to create the hip joint?
4. Name three functions of the acetabular labrum
5.Describe the hip joint
6. What is the close-packed/open-packed positions of the hip joint?
7. What is the capsular pattern? What does that mean?
8. Provide three ligaments that reinforce the joint capsule and know their roles
9. Explain how a paraplegic or spinal cord injury (SCI) can stand using the ischiofemoral ligament
10. What is the significance of adductor hiatus? Want Online Help?
11. Pes anserine ("goose foot") is an attachment site fore which three muscles?
12. Identify single- and multi-joint muscles with the hip joint.
13. Review Clinical Application 17-1 for proper positioning for a straight leg raise (SLR) particularly noting pelvis stabilization.
14. Which muscle of the deep rotators. if adaptively shortened, can compress which nerve causing radiating pain down the back of the leg?
15. Review Clinical Application 17-2 for piriformis stretch position
16. For all muscles listed, note whether it is a strap, fusiform, etc. type of muscle
17. Be familiar with common pathologies
18. Review clinical application 17-4 on using a cane on the opposite side of involved extremity