Gluteal region I

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: Gluteal Region and Ischiorectal Fossa : 1. Discuss the difference between the intertrochanteric crest and intertrochanteric line. : 2. What is the greater sciatic notch? : 3. What is the lesser sciatic notch? : 4. What is the greater sciatic foramen? : 5. What is the lesser sciatic foramen? : 6. The spinal cord end at what vertebral level? : 7. The subarachnoid space (which contains cerebrospinal fluid) end at what level? : 8. Where (vertebral level) would you want to do a spinal tap - and where (vertebral level) would it endanger the spinal cord? : 9. True or false: The iliac crest is on the same transverse plane as L4? : L2 is at the same transverse plane as the posterior superior iliac spine? : The ischial tuberosities are on the same transverse plane as the lesser trochanter of the femur? : 10. What is the origin, insertion, innervation, and action of the gluteus maximus? : 11. What is the origin, insertion, innervation, and action of the gluteus medius? : 12. What is the origin, insertion, innervation, and action of the gluteus minimus? : 13. What is the origin, insertion, and action of the superior gemellus? : 14. What is the origin, insertion, and action of the inferior gemellus? : 15. What is the origin, insertion, and action of the obturator internus? : 16. What is the origin, insertion, innervation, and action of the tensor fascia lata? : 17. What is the origin, insertion, and action of the quadratus femoris? : 18. What is the origin, insertion, and action of the piriformis? : 19. Discuss why the piriformis muscle is called the "gateway to the gluteal region and lower extremity". : 20. What structures go through the greater sciatic foramen and enter into the lesser sciatic foramen? : 21. What nerves are derived from the lumbar plexus? : 22. What nerves are derived from the sacral plexus? : 23. Discuss why an injection into the upper medial, lower medial, and lower lateral quadrants of the gluteal region would endanger certain structures. : 24. Justify giving injections in the upper lateral region of the gluteal region.

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