Model Tendon & Muscle Knee

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Description

Instrument Name: Model Tendon & Muscle Knee

Description:

  • A tendon serves to move the bone or structure.
  • A ligament is a fibrous connective tissue that attaches bone to bone, and usually serves to hold structures together and keep them stable.
  • The four muscles of the quadriceps: vastus lateralus, vastus medialus, vastus intermedius and rectus femorisfunction to extend the knee.
  • The muscles join together to form the common quadriceps tendon.
  • Tendons are part of the muscle, and attach muscle to bone. Within the quadriceps tendon is the patella (knee cap.)