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What is the name of the joingt in the middle of the leg?
The knee joint is the joint that is located in the middle of the leg. It lies between the thigh and the lower leg. It is what bends and allows a person to walk smoothly.
Knee flexion is when the knee is bent?
Yes, and knee extension would be when the knee is straight.
What happens when you bend your leg?
When you bend your leg, the muscles in your thigh contract, pulling on the tendons that are attached to the bones in your lower leg. This causes your knee joint to flex, bringing your lower leg closer to your thigh. Additionally, the bones in the knee joint glide and rotate to allow for smooth and efficient movement.
What does it mean to "extend" the knee joint and how is this movement performed?
To "extend" the knee joint means to straighten the leg by increasing the angle between the thigh and the lower leg. This movement is performed by contracting the quadriceps muscles on the front of the thigh, which pull on the patellar tendon to straighten the knee.
What is the difference between lower extremity thigh and leg?
The thigh is the upper part of the lower extremity, located between the hip and knee joints. It contains the femur bone, which is the longest and strongest bone in the body. The leg is the lower part of the lower extremity, located between the knee and ankle joints, and contains the tibia and fibula bones.
What is the joint action in leg extensions?
The joint action in leg extensions is knee extension, where the angle between the thigh and lower leg decreases. The main muscles involved in this action are the quadriceps, specifically the vastus medialis, vastus lateralis, vastus intermedius, and rectus femoris. The movement primarily occurs at the knee joint.
Bending the knee joint to bring the lower-leg and upper-leg bones closer together?
This movement is called knee flexion. It is controlled by the hamstrings at the back of the thigh and the calf muscles. The knee joint flexes to allow the leg to bend and bring the lower leg towards the upper leg.
Is the thigh a joint?
The knee is the joint that is between the thigh and calf on a human. The knee has two articulations and it connects the thigh bone to the two calf bones.
What is the name of the joint between upper and lower leg?
The answer isKnee
What part of the body is the ankle in?
The ankle is the joint formed by the articulation of the lower leg bones with the talus. The ankle connects the foot with the leg.
What do you call the part of the leg from the waist to the knee?
If it is below the inner thigh, it has to be the lower leg and if about the knee is the thigh, itself. There is no name for what you described.
What is the bottom part of your leg called?
The bone on the top of your leg is called your femur or your thigh bone.
