Muscles / Hips
Sartorius
- Hips
- Thigh & knee
- Superficial layer
Anatomy
- Origin
- Anterior superior iliac spine
- Insertion
- Superior part of the medial tibia (pes anserinus)
- Nerve
- Femoral nerve (L2-L3)
Actions
- Flexes, abducts and laterally rotates the hip
- Flexes the knee and medially rotates it when flexed
Also trained by
Notes
- Can avulse the ASIS in adolescent sprinters.
References (4)
- Standring S, ed. Elsevier. Gray's Anatomy: The Anatomical Basis of Clinical Practice. 42nd ed.
- Dalley AF, Agur AMR. Wolters Kluwer. Moore's Clinically Oriented Anatomy. 9th ed.
- Neumann DA. Elsevier. Kinesiology of the Musculoskeletal System: Foundations for Rehabilitation. 3rd ed.
- Betts JG, Young KA, Wise JA, et al. OpenStax (free, openly licensed textbook). Anatomy and Physiology 2e