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What joint helps your leg flex and extend?
The knee helps your leg flex and extend.
What is the joint at the hamstring?
The hamstrings flex the knee and extend the hip.
Extend thigh and flex knee?
Biceps Femoris, Semimembranosus, and Semitendinosus
What does crepitus of the right knee mean?
Crepitus is the grinding sensation that can be felt if you place your hand over the knee and flex and extend it.
Is flex and extend the same?
no. flexing is deceasing the angle (e.g bending knee) extending is straightening something. (e.g. straightening knee)
What is modified hinge joint?
the knee and elbow, hinge joints and only move on one plane (they can only flex and extend)
What is flex and extended?
Muscles that flex the knee are the hamstrings which include your semitendinosus, semimembranosus and biceps femoris musces. Muscles that extend the knee are the quadriceps muscles which includes your vastus lateralis obliques, vastus intermedius, vastus medialis obliques and your rectus femoris.
What are the funtions of the quadriceps?
Quadriceps contracts to extend the knee joint. Rectus femoris, the part of quadriceps flex the hip joint on the thigh.
Explain the difference between extending and flexing your arm at the elbow?
When you straighten your arm or leg (as in a pushing movement), you EXTEND the arm or leg. When you bend your arm at the elbow or your leg at the knee, you FLEX the arm at the elbow and flex the leg at the knee.
Which muscle that will make the knee bend when it contracts. Which muscle that will make the leg straighten at the knee when it contracts. which of that two muscle is a lexor and an extensor?
The flexor would be the hamstring, and gastrocnemius, which bend/flex the knee. The quadriceps, are extensors, which straighten/extend the knee.
Which muscles originate on the ischial tuberosity and extend the thigh at the hip plus flex the leg at the knee?
Semimembranosus, semitendinosus, and biceps femoris ... The hamstrings
Extends the thigh and flex the knee?
The quadriceps extends the thigh and the hamstring muscles flex the knee
