The vastus medialis, otherwise known as the vastus medialis oblique (VMO), is a teardrop-shaped muscle that helps extend the ...

But the rectus femoris is the only quad muscle that crosses the hip joint and can assist in upward bending (flexion) of your hip. The vastus medialis oblique is especially important for stabilizing ...

The medial is less marked, especially at its upper part, where it is crossed by the femoral artery. From the medial lip of the linea aspera and its prolongations above and below, the vastus medialis ...

Your quadriceps consist of four muscles: the rectus femoris, vastus lateralis, vastus medialis and the vastus intermedius. Together, these four muscles contain more mass than any other muscle in ...

The quadriceps muscles include the rectus femoris and the vastus lateralis, vastus intermedius and vastus medialis. The origin of the rectus femoris is the anterior inferior iliac spine, and the ...

Methods: Eight healthy young adult volunteers without history of knee or quadriceps injury participated. Surface EMG data were collected from the vastus medialis oblique (VMO), vastus lateralis (VL), ...

In addition, there was inflammation of the vastus medialis muscle inferiorly, with fluid density noted along the fascial sheaths (Figs. 1-4). Both the anterior and posterior compartments appeared ...

We recruited 20 adolescent patients with CF (10 female) and 10 patients with PCD (four female) from clinics at the Hospital for Sick Children as well as 20 age, gender, and habitual physical ...

The step-up with deliberate co-activation resulted in greater activation of the hamstrings, greater co-activation indices for semimembranosus-vastus medialis and biceps femoris-vastus lateralis ...

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