Online Continuing Education Courses

Thigh Adductors and Triceps Surae

• Summarize manual muscle strength testing: purposes; procedures; and grading.
• Describe origins, insertions, actions, athletic activities and common clinical conditions involved with seven muscles of the thigh adductor and triceps surae groups.
• Apply knowledge of anatomy to refine vectors of force and other procedures involved in performing manual strength tests for these muscles of the thigh and leg.
• Manually measure strength of seven muscles in the thigh adductor and triceps surae groups.
• Interpret the clinical and athletic significance of abnormal results with these manual strength tests of the medial muscles of the thigh and posterior calf.