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Muscles that Move the Leg

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The movement of the legs is facilitated by numerous muscles located within the anterior, medial, and posterior compartments of the thigh.
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The quadriceps femoris, the most visible muscle of the anterior compartment, is integral for leg extension and thigh flexion. It is formed by merging four distinct muscles — the vastus lateralis, vastus medialis, vastus intermedius, and rectus femoris. The quadriceps tendon, a shared tendon of the four quadriceps muscles, is affixed...

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Hamstring injuries and predicting return to play: 'bye-bye MRI?'

G Reurink¹, R Whiteley², J L Tol³

¹Department of Orthopaedics, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

British Journal of Sports Medicine

|September 3, 2015

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