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Popliteus Muscle
-allow knee unlocking during flexion of the leg.
-stabilise the knee joint
-located around the back side of the knee
FLEXION EXTENSION
bending motion at a joint that straightening of a bent joint,
decreases the angle between the increasing the distance between
two bones the bones
Other than the popliteus,
MUSCLES THAT ARE all other muscles below
3) TIBIALIS POSTERIOR
1) FLEXOR DIGITORUM LONGUS
Origin: Posterior surface of tibia distal to
popliteal line
- Fibularis Brevis
Fibularis Longus
Origin: Head of fibula, upper 1/2 - 2/3 of lateral fibular
shaft surface; also anterior and posterior intermuscular
septa of leg
Lumbricals
(MTP) joints
Flexor hallucis longus
Origin : fibula, posterior aspect of middle 1/3
Action : flexes all joints of the big toe, plantar flexion of the
ankle joint
Muscle on Dorsal interossei
ORIGIN: Bipennate from inner aspects of shafts of all
metatarsals
Action: Abduct 2nd , 3rd and 4th toes from axis of 2nd
toe. Assist lumbricals in extending interphalangeal joints
while flexing metatarsal phalangeal joints
Plantar Interossei
ORIGIN: Inferomedial shafts of 3rd , 4th and 5th metatarsals
(single heads)
ACTION: Adduct 3rd 4th and 5th toes to axis of 2nd toe, Assist
lumbricals in extending interphalangeal joints while flexing
metatarsal phalangeal joints.
Adductor hallucis
ORIGIN: Medial process of posterior calcaneal tuberosity &
flexor retinaculum
Lunge forward with your right foot and left arm until the shin of your back leg
is parallel to the floor and your knee almost touches the ground. Push up off
the ground in an explosive manner, and switch your legs in midair so you land
in a lunge with your left leg forward. Left and right lunges count as one rep.
Straight-Leg Calf Raise
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