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On the way to Pamukkale, we drove to the less-visited ruin site of Aphrodisias This time we hit the museum first, as Aphrodisias was most known for its academy of sculpture, with copies later found in Italy and Greece. Statues were carved from the white, gray-blue Carian marble nearby. It was also a center for philosophy (Xenocrates) and medicine.
While they've found settlements going back to ~2800 BC, its heydey was under the Romans
In the 6th C., the name was changed to Stavropolis by the Christians to erase memories of free-spirit Aphrodite, but the locals preferred the name Caria, later likely modified to the name Geyre in Turkish. |
A relief at the Aphrodisias museum |
To the left a bit |
I don't know who is represented in this one. Let me know if you do. |
Also, I don't know "who" is on his left :-) |
Didn't learn what caused the spotting. |
"Eternity" feeling some foreboding about eternity Description there: "AION - (Eternity) raises his right hand to his head in a gesture of
Philosopher Row |
Eastern slope of the larger of two prehistoric settlement mounds ~2800 BC The ruins that survived are of 2nd-3rd century, however. |
The Romans built over the older sites. Beautiful landscape. |
Possibly Hadrian Baths? |
Gorgeous trees |
It felt like Italy here. |
Theater, with colorful stone stage Seating was for over 10,000. Built by the Greeks in the 1st C. and enlarged by Marcus
Zoomed the little Elph S400 for stage detail More info (and then some) on the theater at the Whitman website. |
Columns R Us (seen from a pathway above) |
To be identified later ... |
Now at lower level of the site |
There's always a sarcophagus nearby in Ancient Anatolia. Sturdy white column at left, and what seems like mix and match otherwise. |
Temple of Aphrodite in the distance. |
Another sarcophagus in forefront. Am walking towards objects in back, right. |
This reminded me of Machu Picchu's Lower Urban Center. |
After the earthquake (especially 7th C.) |
This was a sundial. |
Baths of Hadrian section |
What's left of The Temple of Aphrodite across the way Just whimsy, but this looked to me like a mother column showing her 2 young'uns the master
Coming upon the marble Odeon (small greek theater) Built 2nd-3rd C., it once had a roof, with light coming from tall arched windows in the curved
At an entrance, on the right side While the lower nine rows of marble seats survived intact, the 12 rows of the upper seating
The Odeon of the Bouleuterion (Council House) Seating for ~1750. The marble on lower portion, with large seats on top row, stayed intact
Stone detail that I found quite beautiful. In the 5th C., the space was used as a concert hall and lecture room and for competitive displays.
The stones were like modern art to me. Note the lion's feet at the ends of the rows. |
Closer look at stone detail |
Marble seats, with lion's paws marking end of a row Shot this from radial stairway at end of row in that section. |
The Tretrapylon - gateway to the site. 2nd C. AD Built during Hadrian's reign, it had 4 rows of 4 columns. Am walking from site to the gate out. |
Tetrapylon - from the front. |
Tetrapylon - from left, as we exit the site You can see the Temple of Aphrodite in the distance. This probably marked a Sacred path to it. |
Tetrapylon - a last look at Aphrodisias while exiting |


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'kNOw Diabetes', a diabetes prevention and control programme sponsored by the Denmark-based World Diabetes Foundation (WDF) and implemented by the Medical Trust Hospital at Kulanada, near Pandalam, has been extended to Alappuzha district in the wake of the successful implementation of the pilot project in Pathanamthitta over the past three years.
Addressing a press conference here on Friday, G. Dileepkumar, project manager, said a 'Walk to Health' programme aimed at spreading awareness of diabetes and various other lifestyle diseases would be held in the two districts of Pathanamthitta and Alappuzha. Mr. Dileepkumar said the 14-day 'Walk to Health' awareness campaign, covering 196 kilometres in the two districts, would begin on November 1. Chief Minister, Oommen Chandy, will formally launch the programme at a function to be held at his chamber in Thiruvananthapuram on October 31. Health Minister Adoor Prakash will preside.
Mr. Dileepkumar said a 14-member team of student-volunteers would lead the health walk. Schoolchildren as well as hundreds of people from the two districts will take part in the 'Walk to Health' programme organised as part of World Diabetes Day on November 14.
The 'kNOw Diabetes' project is being implemented in association with the district panchayats of Pathanamthitta and Alappuzha, National Rural Health Mission, Health Department, local self-government institutions and various non-governmental organisations in the two districts, he said.
S. Pulikesi, Additional Director General of Police, will flag off the march at Adoor at 9.30 am on November 1. Chittayam Gopakumar, MLA, will inaugurate a public meeting to be held as part of the
function. Babu George, district panchayat president, will preside. G. Vijayakumar, project director, will deliver the keynote address.
The march will pass through Pandalam (November 2); Pathanamthitta (November 3); Konni (November 4); Ranni (November 5); Kozhencherry (November 6); Mallappaly (November 7); Thiruvalla (November 8); Chengannur, (November 9); Mavelikara (November 10); Kayamkulam (November 11); Haripad (November 12); and Ambalappuzha (November 13). The march will culminate with a grand finale in Alappuzha town on World Diabetes Day on November 14. Union Minister of State for Power K.C. Venugopal will inaugurate the valedictory function to be held in Alappuzha town
at 9.3 0 a.m. G. Sudhakaran, T.M. Thomas Isaac, MLAs and Prathibha Hari, Alappuzha district panchayat president, will address the function.
According to Dr. Vijayakumar, the WDF-supported diabetes prevention and control programme aims to target schoolchildren, teachers, and parents as an effective medium to address the community as a whole, creating proper awareness and a healthy environment at houses, schools and the surroundings in an attempt to reduce the risk factors.
He says 30 minutes of walking five days a week would change unhealthy trends and prevent diabetes. Mr. Dileepkumar said the project was expected to have an indirect influence on not less than 10,00,000 people of Pathanamthitta and Alappuzha district.
G. Sureshkumar, finance manager, and S. Rajesh, member, also attended the press meet.
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WHEN Taiwan's new president, Ma Ying-jeou, made his inaugural speech on May 20th, he was listened to closely not just by the voters who elected him in March but by the Chinese government. It was a foretaste of the job he has taken on. Central to the task will be to balance the pursuit of better China ties with safeguarding Taiwan's sovereignty.
Mr Ma, 57, a Harvard-educated lawyer, succeeds Chen Shui-bian of the independence-leaning Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). Mr Chen, divested of presidential immunity, now faces a corruption investigation. Mr Ma pleased China by stressing the common heritage shared by people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait. He courted local opinion, too, by praising the island's four centuries of history and its new, vibrant democracy. But he distanced himself from Mr Chen's confrontational policy towards the mainland.
Mr Ma reaffirmed the "1992 consensus" with China, under which both sides agree to accept there is "one China", but differ over how to define it. In other words, the dispute over sovereignty is set aside in the interests of better relations. So he is committing himself to the maintenance of the present limbo, of Taiwan's de facto but not de jure independence. He urged China to "seize the historic opportunity to achieve peace and co-prosperity". Two days later a senior Chinese official gushed about the "major positive changes" in relations with Taiwan. Mr Ma's campaign made much of the economic benefits of better relations with China.
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China is delighted to see the back of the DPP, preferring to deal with its former nemesis, Mr Ma's governing party, the Kuomintang or KMT. But the KMT is split over its approach to the Communists, which may cripple the government's authority in cross-strait talks. China is a past-master of divide-and-rule strategies.
In the latest high-level contact since Mr Ma's election, the KMT's chairman, Wu Poh-hsiung, is soon to visit Hu Jintao, China's president and Communist Party leader. Mr Ma, however, has tried to stamp his personal authority on cross-strait relations with his choice of chairman for the government's China-policy department, the Mainland Affairs Council. She is Lai Shin-yuan, an independence-minded former legislator. This irked the KMT's pro-China lobby.
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Detecting and tracking moving objects in long-distance imaging through turbulent medium |
Applied Optics, Vol. 53, Issue 6, pp. 1181-1190 (2014)
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The challenge of detecting and tracking moving objects in imaging throughout the atmosphere stems from the atmospheric turbulence effects that cause time-varying image shifts and blur. These phenomena significantly increase the miss and false detection rates in long-range horizontal imaging. An efficient method was developed, which is based on novel criteria for objects' spatio-temporal properties, to discriminate true from false detections, following an adaptive thresholding procedure for foreground detection and an activity-based false alarm likeliness masking. The method is demonstrated on significantly distorted videos and compared with state of the art methods, and shows better false alarm and miss detection rates.
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(010.1330) Atmospheric and oceanic optics : Atmospheric turbulence
(100.3008) Image processing : Image recognition, algorithms and filters
(100.4999) Image processing : Pattern recognition, target tracking
(010.7295) Atmospheric and oceanic optics : Visibility and imaging
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Original Manuscript: October 18, 2013
Revised Manuscript: January 14, 2014
Manuscript Accepted: January 14, 2014
Published: February 20, 2014
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Eli Chen, Oren Haik, and Yitzhak Yitzhaky, "Detecting and tracking moving objects in long-distance imaging through turbulent medium," Appl. Opt. 53, 1181-1190 (2014)
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Fork Report: ASU stomped by Stanford in yet another struggle away from home
LAS VEGAS -- It was the same old story for Arizona State in a brutal 79-58 whooping at the hands of Johnny Dawkins' Stanford Cardinal.
ASU (21-11) got off to a terrible start, trailed wire-to-wire and failed to shoot the ball effectively while competing away from Wells Fargo Arena.
Sound familiar?
"It all started from the first possession where we had the ball two feet from the basket and didn't score," said head coach Herb Sendek.
This time, it came during the team's opening postseason game in front of lingering Arizona Wildcats' fans who had stayed to soak in some more of the tournament.
On multiple occasions, Wildcats fans who were still celebrating from their victory earlier in the day over Utah took center stage with "U-of-A" chants that drowned out the entire crowd.
Stanford (21-11) took a 9-0 lead five minutes into the game and controlled most of the first half.
Herb Sendek's squad closed the gap to 30-27 by halftime, thanks to Bo Barnes and Jonathan Gilling -- both of whom came off the bench and sank a combined five three-pointers.
This effort temporarily bailed out starters Jahii Carson and Jermaine Marshall, who were shut out in the first half, going a combined 0-for-8 from the floor.
"They do a good job with their defense with their length and size," Sendek said about Stanford's ability to shut down their top guards.
"We were having a tough time guarding (Dwight) Powell on the perimeter, so we tried to go smaller, but that didn't work."
The Cardinal's Dwight Powell shot 6-for-8 from the field and finished with 15 points. Meanwhile, teammate Chasson Randle led all scorers with 21 points to complement his four assists and two steals.
Stanford kept their cool in the second half and established a 51-38 lead with 11:38 remaining.
The Cardinal used a redundant array of flashy dunks and layups to shoot 71 percent in the second half -- extracting all the morale out of the Sun Devils, who have now dropped three straight.
"We just have to press reset and look forward," Gilling said after the game. "We can't stress and get down on ourselves. It's a losing streak. Things happen. You just have to be positive about the future."
The Danish junior forward led all ASU scorers with 13 on the night.
Barnes and Shaquielle McKissic contributed 12 -- each proving worthy of an uptick in floor time. Carson was the other Sun Devil to finish in double figures with 10, pouring in most of his scoring over the final five minutes of the contest. Prior to that, he struggled to find space down low, getting blocked on three occasions.
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It was nice to see ASU's bench contribute, and tonight they needed every point they could get with their starters struggling to convert in the first half. Barnes sparked the late-first-half offense with two stellar backdoor cuts for layups, also sinking a pair of three-pointers to keep the game within reach.
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The defense in the second half ensured their would be no comeback for ASU. Stanford brought the crowd to its feet with well-executed offensive sets ending in highlight dunks and uncontested layups. Allowing an opponent to shoot 71 percent is not acceptable for any defense in a matter of 20 minutes.
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"They came up with more energy. They played freely. They weren't worried about anything. They made plays and we didn't. When a team has great shooters and bigs, they're going to punish us when we don't have great energy and effort." - Jonathan Gilling
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Today is my due date, and I am birthing at a birth center, with Certified Nurse Midwives. It is protocol at this center to schedule a biophysical profile and non-stress test at 41 weeks. I am just wondering how often this test results in an induction. I know two of the measurements are amniotic fluid and fetal activity, so I plan to drink lots of water and schedule the test for the afternoon, when I know my little peanut is more active. Is there anything else I should do to increase my chances of successfully avoiding a medical induction?
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I have never heard of that. I have heard on an NST but what is a biophysical profile?
A biophysical profile is an ultrasound which measures the function of the placenta, the level of amniotic fluid, fetal movement/ muscle tone, and "breathing movements". I guess fetuses are supposed to "practice" breathing in the womb.
Cut and pasted from BabyCenter:
Each of the five components – body movements, muscle tone, breathing movements, amniotic fluid, and heartbeat – is assigned a score of either 0 (abnormal) or 2 (normal). These are added up for a total score ranging from 0 to 10. In general, a total score of 8 or 10 is normal, 6 is considered borderline, and below 6 is worrisome
If all the ultrasound scores are normal, your practitioner may decide not to do the nonstress test. But if the amount of amniotic fluid scores a 0, your baby will need more testing and you may need to deliver right away (particularly if you're near 37 weeks) – even if the other things they looked at seemed fine.
If your practitioner is concerned about your baby's well-being, you may be sent to the hospital for closer observation and further testing. If she thinks your baby isn't doing well and needs to be delivered, you'll be induced.
Oh I had those! I just have never heard of it being called that. Unless you are at risj for something I best you will pass fine.
I think that, most of the time, the BPP goes well and you stay pregnant until you go into labor. Don't stress out about it.
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Ebola continues to spread in West Africa
The World Health Organization is reporting 887 deaths from the worst outbreak of the Ebola virus in history. A man with Ebola-like symptoms who had recently been to West Africa went to the emergency room at the Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan on Sunday and a nurse who treated Ebola victims will be the second American flown in a specially outfitted plane from Liberia to be treated for the virus. Emory University Hospital in Atlanta is expecting her to arrive on Tuesday. Kent Brantly, a doctor on her team is also being treated there. --Thea Breite (14 photos total)
Liberian Deputy Health Minister Tolbert Nyensuah talks with protesters on the importance of burying Ebola victims in Johnsonville outside Monrovia, Liberia August 2, 2014. The military police were called in to control youths from the Johnsonville community who staged a protest against the government's decision to bury Ebola victims in Johnsonville. (Ahmed Jallanzo/EPA) #
Nigeria health officials wait to screen passengers at the arrival hall of Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos, Nigeria, Monday, Aug. 4, 2014. Nigerian authorities on Monday confirmed a second case of Ebola in Africa's most populous country, an alarming setback as officials across the region battle to stop the spread of a disease. (Sunday Alamba/AP) #
Liberian members of the Women of Peace Building Network in Monrovia, Liberia, August 4, 2014 as they observe two weeks of fasting and praying for God's intervention in eradicating the deadly Ebola virus. According to statistics from the United Nations, 887 people have died from the Ebola outbreak, making it the worst ever in history. The Liberian government has ordered that the bodies of people killed by the Ebola virus must be cremated following strong reactions from communities objecting against the burial of Ebola victims in their areas. (Ahmed Jallanzo/EPA) #
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HANNIBAL — It took more than half a century, but a soldier killed during the Korean War is finally coming home to Missouri.
Hannibal native Sgt. 1st Class Carl Brewington was killed Dec. 2, 1950, during a battle at the Chosin Reservoir in North Korea. Brewington's son, Bob Brewington of Smithfield, N.C., recently was notified that after three years of lab tests, his father's remains have been positively identified.
"This is a big surprise,'' Bob Brewington told the Hannibal Courier-Post.
In July, soldiers will escort the remains to Missouri. Brewington will be buried in Gravois Mills, overlooking the Lake of the Ozarks, where the family has a plot. A ceremony will be July 22.
Bob Brewington was 13 when the family received a telegram in mid-January 1951 informing them of Carl Brewington's death.
"I still have the original telegram,'' he said.
Mary Reynolds of Hannibal, Carl Brewington's niece, recalled how difficult the news was for her mother, Brewington's sister.
"She took it hard,'' Reynolds said, recalling that the family was originally told the soldier was missing. "I asked her what it meant, and she told me that he could still be alive and come back to us someday — but it didn't turn out that way.''
Bob Brewington recalled his father being "a big guy and pretty easy going. He was full of fun and had a good sense of humor.''
The Chosin Reservoir Battle of the Korean War is considered to be among the fiercest battles in U.S. history. The area is bitter cold, a reservoir of water near the China border, surrounded by rugged mountainous terrain with few dirt roads.
A Chinese force launched a massive surprise attack at night against a convoy of U.S. troops. An estimated 25,000 Chinese and 3,000 Americans were killed.
"Dad's outfit was in the rear guard and his death occurred prior to the attack on the convoy,'' Bob Brewington said. "I would like to find someone who knew him and was with him when the attack occurred. From his skeleton, Army officials know he died of a severe blow to his head.''
Bob Brewington, who spent 23 years in the Marines, wasn't sure if he'd ever see his father's remains. He had a headstone made in his father's memory and placed it on the family plot in Gravois Mills.
"The thought that he would ever be found never entered my mind,'' he said.
The grave site was initially discovered by farmers in 1979. An American crew began excavating the site in September 2001 and found the remains of seven people. The next month, they found five more remains. All were flown to the U.S. Central Identification Laboratory in Hawaii.
In May, a civilian repatriation officer from Washington and a casualty officer from Fort Bragg, N.C., arrived at Bob Brewington's home with a 138-page report documenting everything the Army had learned and what it had recovered.
So far, Bob Brewington said, only his father and Billy Grady Donahoe have been identified. Their dog tags were found in the grave. Dental records and evidence of a broken leg suffered two years earlier helped authorities confirm Carl Brewington's remains.
Brewington is the second person from Hannibal whose remains have been discovered in North Korea and returned. Hallie Clark Jr., who was killed on Nov. 27, 1950, was buried at Arlington National Cemetery in July 2000.
More than 8,000 U.S. troops remain missing from the Korean War, including more than 1,000 from the Chosin campaign.


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FREDERICTON - A Fredericton man whose residence was used as a place to stash marijuana before it was sold has been sent to prison.
Fabian Troy Kelly, 39, was sentenced Monday to 26 months after being convicted earlier of possession of marijuana for the purpose of trafficking.
Kelly was charged in Operation Jellybean, a joint-forces investigation that ran for a couple of years and focused on the drug trade in Fredericton.
Jellybean targeted crime groups involved in a variety of drugs, including anabolic steroids, cocaine, marijuana and prescription drugs.
Officers executed a search warrant on Kelly's home and found just over three kilograms of pot in bags.
Judge Anne Jeffries said that although Kelly was a minor player in the operation, he still allowed his home to be used for drug storage.
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After a day of rest, football, and catch-up, we got a surprising amount of new snow overnight, especially at higher elevations just west of here. At 1,400 feet, the Schenectady County Forest is high enough that it still had about 6-8" of firm base, and got about another 5" last night. Holly and I headed off on the short 20-minute drive this afternoon to get in a quick ski before the walkers ruined the trails there. The snow was heavy and wet, as I had found earlier when clearing my driveway. With the temperature around 40 degrees, this was a lot like spring skiing. We skied for about 45 minutes, breaking trail all the way, dodging snow bombs from the pines above, and smooshing thousands of snow fleas that speckled the surface of the snow. That means I'll soon have the stench of death in my basement whenever I walk past where the skis are hanging.
It was good to get out on a nice day, but we really need some better snow than this, along with some colder temperatures.
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Rectus femoris muscle
Rectus femoris muscle | |
Muscles of the iliac and anterior femoral regions. (Rectus femoris visible near center.)
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Latin | Musculus rectus femoris |
anterior inferior iliac spine and the exterior surface of the bony ridge which forms the groove on the iliac portion of the acetabulum | |
inserts into the patellar tendon as one of the four quadriceps muscles | |
descending branch of the lateral femoral circumflex artery | |
femoral nerve | |
Actions | knee extension; hip flexion |
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Gray's | p.470 |
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The rectus femoris muscle (/ˈrɛktəs ˈfɛmərɨs/) is one of the four quadriceps muscles of the human body. The others are the vastus medialis, the vastus intermedius (deep to the rectus femoris), and the vastus lateralis. All four parts of the quadriceps muscle attach to the patella (knee cap) via the quadriceps tendon.
The rectus femoris is situated in the middle of the front of the thigh; it is fusiform in shape, and its superficial fibers are arranged in a bipenniform manner, the deep fibers running straight down to the deep aponeurosis. Its functions are to flex the thigh at the hip joint and to extend the leg at the knee joint.[1]
It arises by two tendons: one, the anterior or straight, from the anterior inferior iliac spine; the other, the posterior or reflected, from a groove above the rim of the acetabulum.
The two unite at an acute angle, and spread into an aponeurosis which is prolonged downward on the anterior surface of the muscle, and from this the muscular fibers arise.
The muscle ends in a broad and thick aponeurosis which occupies the lower two-thirds of its posterior surface, and, gradually becoming narrowed into a flattened tendon, is inserted into the base of the patella.
The neurons for voluntary thigh contraction originate near the summit of the medial side of the precentral gyrus (the primary motor area of the brain). These neurons send a nerve signal that is carried by the corticospinal tract down the brainstem and spinal cord. The signal starts with the upper motor neurons carrying the signal from the precentral gyrus down through the internal capsule, through the cerebral peduncle, and into the medulla. In the medullary pyramid, the corticospinal tract decussates and becomes the lateral corticospinal tract. The nerve signal will continue down the lateral corticospinal tract until it reaches spinal nerve L4. At this point, the nerve signal will synapse from the upper motor neurons to the lower motor neurons. The signal will travel through the anterior root of L4 and into the anterior rami of the L4 nerve, leaving the spinal cord through the lumbar plexus. The posterior division of the L4 root is the Femoral nerve. The femoral nerve innervates the quadriceps femoris, a fourth of which is the rectus femoris. When the rectus femoris receives the signal that has traveled all the way from the medial side of the precentral gyrus, it contracts, extending the knee and flexing the thigh at the hip.[2]
The rectus femoris, sartorius, and iliopsoas are the flexors of the thigh at the hip.
The rectus femoris is a weaker hip flexor when the knee is extended because it is already shortened and thus suffers from active insufficiency; the action will recruit more iliacus, psoas major, tensor fasciae latae, and the remaining hip flexors than it will the rectus femoris.
Similarly, the rectus femoris is not dominant in knee extension when the hip is flexed since it is already shortened and thus suffers from active insufficiency. In essence: the action of extending the knee from a seated position is primarily driven by the vastus lateralis, vastus medialis, and vastus intermedius, and less by the rectus femoris.
In the other extreme, the muscle's ability to flex the hip and extend can be compromised in a position of full hip extension and knee flexion, due to passive insufficiency.
The rectus femoris is a direct antagonist to the hamstrings, at the hip and at the knee. Rectus femoris can be torn which can be extremely painful and potentially debilitating if there is a complete rupture.
Clinical significance[edit]
Rectus femoris strain, referred to as hip flexor strain,[3] is an injury commonly at the tendon that attaches to the patella or in the muscle itself. The injury is usually a partial tear but could be a full tear. The injury is caused by a forceful movement related to sprinting, jumping, or kicking and is common in sports like football or soccer. The rectus femoris is prone to injury since it crosses both the knee and the hip. Symptoms include a sudden sharp pain at the front of the hip or in the groin, swelling and bruising, and an inability to contract the rectus femoris with a full tear.[4]
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- ^ Sportsmedicine: Rectus Femoris
- ^ (The information in above section is from the textbook, Anatomy and Physiology: The Unity of Form and Function, Saladin, 5th Ed)
- ^ http://www.drdavidgeier.com/injuries/rectus-femoris-strain/
- ^ http://orthopaedic.com.sg/a-rare-form-of-soccer-injury-rectus-femoris-tendon-rupture/
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Philadelphia Eagles hear from several teams about Kevin Kolb, source says http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton...=ESPNHeadlinesThe Philadelphia Eagles have received numerous calls about the availability of quarterback Kevin Kolb from several teams, according to a senior team official. More... |
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