Explanation
Here you find the most important basic anatomical structures of a healthy hip and an overview of all essential hip diseases with a short definition of the illness.
The healthy hip:
Anatomy:
The hip joint is a ball-and-socket joint just like the shoulder joint. Ball-and-socket joints have the advantage that they can move three-dimensionally. The hip head is located in the socket of the hip of the pelvis. The hip joint is being protected from dislocation by the strongest ligaments of the whole body. Just like the socket of the hip, also the femoral head is covered by of a thick cartilage layer. The joint muscous membrane (synovia) forms joint fluid, which is released constantly into the joint for the "lubrication". The angle between the femoral neck and shaft is normally 127° and can be considered as ideal with that. At the end of the femoral neck there are muscle groups attached to two bone leads (trochanter major and minor) which have importance decisive for the movability of the hip.
- st spinal column
- nd wing of ilium (os ilium)
- rd hip joint
- th femoral head
- th femoral neck
- th symphysis
- th small condyle (Trochanter Minor)
- th big condyle (Trochanter major)
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