Overview. The lower leg is comprised of two bones, the tibia and the smaller fibula. The thigh bone,or femur, is the large upper leg bone that connects the lower leg bones (knee joint) to the pelvic bone (hip joint). Why hip bone is called coxal bone?
First, a smaller bone wedge is removed from the lateral site of the osteotomy, and the leg length after this procedure is not reduced compared with the traditional CWHTO. There is also no step-off at the lateral osteotomy site. In traditional CWHTO, the osteotomy is performed in parallel ...
The pectineus muscleadducts and flexes the femur at the hip. The thigh muscles that move the femur, tibia, and fibula are divided into medial, anterior, and posterior compartments. What is adduction of the thigh? As their name suggests, the main action of this group of muscles is to produ...
In contrast the shorter rider has less biomechanical leverage (shorter legs) and also less mechanical leverage (shorter cranks) so high cadence is not a problem, at least theoretically, because the circle the foot goes through is much smaller and foot speed is much lower. But this same combina...