What are femoral condyles?
femoral condyles are a pair of round bone protrusions coming from both sides of the thigh bone in the thigh. The tangible joints, when bent, are known specifically as medium and lateral femoral condyles. The media condyl is named for its location on the inside of the knee, closer to the middle line of the body, while the lateral condyle is located on the outside of the knee, far from the middle line of the body. Several muscles, bindings and other tissues come from or insert on femoral condyles, between them there is a popliteus on the back of the knee, gastrocenemius of the calf muscle and the middle and side collateral bonds of the knee joint. He cleverly intersects the back of the knee and inserts on the back surface of the upper bone of the tibia in the lower leg. This muscle participates in the rotation of the knee joint during the foot in which the leg is on the ground.
Action Poppliteus depends on whether the femur or tibia is in a fixed position. WhoYE is the original end of Popliteus on the femoral condyle in a firm position, which means that femur is immobile and the tibia moves to it with respect to it, internally rotating the tibia with the femur, unlocking the knee joint. On the contrary, when the inserting end of the popliteus on the tibia in a firm position, which means that the tibia is still and femur moves to it, the problems rotate externally in due to the tibia, and also unlock the knee.
Another muscle that finds its origin on femoral condyles is gastrocnemius, large muscles of the calf. The double -headed muscle, comes on both sides of the knee, with the medial head resulting from the medial condyle and laterathyl head arising from the lateral condyle. Although the knee joint intersects, the gastrocnemius mainly acts on the ankle joint and records the foot down when it is known as plantarflex in the contracts.
The two main links of the knee are also attached to the femoral condyles. Known as collateralligaments because it runs parallel to both side of the joint, they are tibial or medial collateral ligament (MCL) and fibular or lateral collateral liga (LCL). Each connects the femur with one of two tibia; Both are responsible for holding the joint together and stabilizing the joint against horizontal forces.