“This is the largest head of the quads and is responsible for knee extension.” The vastus medialis is the medial head, closest to the body’s midline, says Nguyen. “Aside from knee extension, this head ...

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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 ...

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 ...

[25] The muscle fiber orientation with respect to the femoral shaft was a mean of 43° for the vastus medialis and 63° for the vastus medialis obliquus. This is a smaller disparity than that ...

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), ...

They are called quads because they consist of four individual muscles; rectus femoris, vastus medialis, vastus lateralis and vastus intermedius.

Elevating your heels places far more emphasis on your quads than a regular squat, particularly on the vastus medialis – the teardrop-shaped muscle on the inside of the thigh that extends to your ...