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The quadriceps muscle helps straighten and extend the leg and the hamstring helps bend the knee.
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What is the muscle that bends the knee?
Quadriceps femoris
What Muscle or tendon on left side of right knee pops out of place when it bends sometimes?
LCL
What muscle is in the leg that bends the knee and is made up of three muscles?
The only muscle of the leg that is made up of three muscles are the hamstrings.
What type of muscle bends the knee?
Hamstrings ( Biceps Femoris, Semitendinosus & Semimembranosus) are the Agonistic Muscles Quadricpes ( Rectus Femoris, Vastus Lateralis, Vastus Medialis & Vastus Intermedius) are the Antagonistic Muscles Hope I Helped... Sharnie x :)
How do you get strong legs?
Deep knee bends.
Name a part of the body that bends?
knee
What exercises start with k?
knee bends
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.
Muscle that bends body?
Spine. Bone, not muscle.
A muscle that bends part of your body is called?
A flexor muscle.
Which type of movement bends the knee and brings the lower leg toward the back?
flexion of the knee.
What do the knee do?
"It bends when you need it too. If we did not have that then you wouldn't be able to walk."what.
