Muscles & Actions

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Across
  1. 2. a deep hip muscle that flexes the hip
  2. 4. one part of the hamstrings that helps with knee flexion
  3. 6. group of 4 muscles that extend the knee
  4. 7. muscles on the inside of the leg that move the leg toward the midline
  5. 10. on the outside of the hip that move the hip away from the midline
  6. 13. flexes the elbow
  7. 17. dorsiflexes the ankle and is a source of shin splints
  8. 18. used for flexion of the spine
Down
  1. 1. posterior rotates the shoulder and helps the pectoralis major adduct the shoulder
  2. 3. the muscle with three heads responsible for extending the elbow
  3. 5. longest muscle in the body that aids with external rotation of the hip
  4. 8. abducts the arm
  5. 9. moves the scapula
  6. 11. when contracted one at a time, laterally flex the spine
  7. 12. responsible for anterior rotation of the shoulder
  8. 14. extension of the back
  9. 15. hip extensor
  10. 16. attached to the heel bone by the Achilles tendon
  11. 19. the deeper, larger calf muscle responsible for plantar flexion