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What is the Joint of the gastrocnemius?
It plantar flexes the foot at the ankle and flexes the leg at the knee.
What part of the body does the gastrocnemius move?
The gastrocnemius, the large muscle in the calf, flexes the knee and foot.
What is the opposite muscle to the tibialis anterior?
The gastrocnemius (plantar flexes the foot) is the muscle which is opposite of the tibialis anterior dorsiflexor of the foot).
What muscle of the legs that plantar flexes foot and flexes legs?
The gastrocnemius, tibialis posterior are the main plantarflexors. However, the flexor digitorium longus and flexor hallicus longus are weak plantarflexors, along with peroneus longus and brevis.
What muscles plantar flex the ankle but do not flex the knee?
The Gastrocnemius and the Soleus flexes the knee and the foot. The Plantaris is an unimportant muscle. Many people do not have it and doctors tend to use this muscle for tendon graphs.
What muscle in leg moves the foot?
There are quite a few muscles that move your foot. The main movers are the tibialis anterior, the extensor digitorum longus, and the peroneus from the front. And the soleus and gastrocnemius from behind.
What muscle flexes the knee and bends the foot downward?
The Gastrocnemius. There is another muscle involved in plantar flexion. The soleus and the tibialus posterior maintains the arch. The only one that does both actions, though, is the Gastrocnemius.
What are the actions of the soleus?
Plantar flexes the foot. (:
What is the gastronemius muscle?
The gastronemius muscle is one of the calf muscles and it plantar flexes the foot or flexes the knee.
Does the gastrocnemius acts in dorsiflexion of the foot?
no the the tibialis anterior acts in the dorisflexion of the foot.
What is the name of the muscle that points your foot?
Gastrocnemius...the calf.
What muscle flexes the foot?
The calf muscle on the back of your tibia and fibula bones, along with a few small ones in your foot itself that I'm not sure of the name.Your shin flexes and your calf contracts. THis works the same when pointing your foot.
