Describe Structure Under Cover Gluteus Maximus
Describe Structure Under Cover Gluteus Maximus
Describe Structure Under Cover Gluteus Maximus
maximus
1. Muscles
2. Vessels
3. Nerves
4. Bones
5. Joints
6. Ligaments
7. Bursae
- Muscles - ( key ½,1,2,3,4)
A) Key muscle is piriformis
B) ½ muscle is reflected head of rectus
femoris
C) The muscle which is single is quadratus
femoris
D) The muscle which are in group two
a) Superior gemelli & inferior gemelli
b) Obturator externus & internus
E) The muscle which are in group three
1. Gluteus minimus
2. Gluteus medius
F) The muscle which are in group four
a) Semimembranous
b) Semitendineus
c) Ischial fibres of adductor Magnus
d) Biceps femoris
- Vessels -
Can be remembered by pneumonics
SIATICA
S-superior gluteal artery
I-inferior gluteal artery
A-ascending branch of medial & lateral
circumflex femoral artery
T- tronchanteric anastomosis
I-internal pudendal vessels
C-cruciate anastomosis
A-ascending branch of first perforating
artery
-Nerves-
1. sciatic nerve (L4 5 S1 2 3 )
2. nerve to quadratus femoris ( L4 5 S 1 )
3. nerve to obturator internus ( L5 S 1 2 )
4. superior gluteal nerve ( L 4 5 S 1 )
5. inferior gluteal nerve ( L5 S 1 2 )
6. pudendal nerve ( S 2 3 4 )
7. posterior cutaneous nerve of thigh (S2 3 )
- bones -
A) part of hip bone
a) ilium
b) ischium
B) sacrum & coccyx
C) upper end of femur
- joints -
1. hip
2. sacroiliac
- ligaments –
1. sacrotuberous
2. sacrospinous
3. ischiofemoral
- bursae -
1. tronchanteric bursa = at greater
tronchanter
2. bursa over Ischial tuberosity
3. bursa between gluteus maximus & vastus
lateralis