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

From the medial lip of the linea aspera and its prolongations above and below, the vastus medialis arises; and from the lateral lip and its upward prolongation, the vastus lateralis takes origin. The ...

The quadriceps are some of the largest and most powerful muscles in your body. They provide the force you need to run, walk, ...

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 ...

But the most likely culprit in runners is the quadriceps. The quadriceps femoris muscle group includes the vastus medialis, vastus intermedius, vastus lateralis, and rectus femoris. With the exception ...

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 ...

Surface EMG data were collected from the vastus medialis oblique (VMO), vastus lateralis (VL), and gluteus medius (Gmed) muscles of the dominant leg of each subject during three single leg, weight ...

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 ...

In resting and contraction conditions, the shear modulus, muscle thickness and pennation angle were measured for the vastus medialis (VM), vastus lateralis (VL) and the rectus femoris (RF) using ...