Anatom3DHip & buttock
Regio coxae et regio glutealis · Kyčel a hýždě
Muscles
Looks like
The buttock and the joint beneath it, with the body's largest muscle behind.
What it does
Drives walking, climbing and standing up, and steadies the pelvis on one leg.
Keeping it well
Glute strength and hip mobility. Pain in the groin is usually the joint; pain on the side is usually tendon.
Its parts
- Skin of buttocks
- Gluteus maximus
- Gluteus medius & minimus
- Piriformis
- Acetabular labrum
- Trochanteric bursa
- Sciatic nerve
- Femoral nerve
- Femoral artery
- Femoral vein
- Right obturator internus
- Left obturator internus
- Deep femoral vein
- Gemellus inferior
- Gemellus superior
- Lateral circumflex femoral vein
- Obturator externus
- Quadratus femoris
- Set of perforating arteries
- Tensor fasciae latae
- Bursa of piriformis muscle
- Intermuscular gluteal bursae
- Sciatic bursa of gluteus maximus muscle
- Sciatic bursa of obturator internus
- Subtendinous bursa of iliacus muscle
- Subtendinous bursa of obturator internus
Related conditions
- Amyloidosis (AL and ATTR)
- Botulism
- Bursitis
- Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease
- Chickenpox (varicella)
- Chronic neuropathic pain
- Chronic pain syndrome
- Chronic venous insufficiency
- Clotting disorders (thrombophilia & APS)
- Deep vein thrombosis
- Developmental dysplasia of the hip
- Erectile dysfunction
- Fibromyalgia
- Frailty & falls in older age
- Gout
- Guillain-Barré syndrome
- Haemophilia & bleeding disorders
- Heat exhaustion & heatstroke
- High blood pressure
- High cholesterol
- Hypothermia & frostbite
- Kawasaki disease
- Lyme disease
- Lymphatic filariasis (elephantiasis)
- Lymphoedema
- Malnutrition & refeeding syndrome
- Marfan syndrome & connective tissue disorders
- Metabolic syndrome
- Muscular dystrophy
- Myasthenia gravis
- Orthostatic hypotension & POTS
- Osteoarthritis
- Peripheral artery disease
- Peripheral neuropathy
- Phaeochromocytoma & hyperaldosteronism
- Piriformis syndrome
- Polymyalgia rheumatica
- Pre-eclampsia
- Psoriatic arthritis
- Rabies
- Raynaud's phenomenon
- Restless legs syndrome
- Rhabdomyolysis
- Rheumatic fever & rheumatic heart disease
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Sarcoma
- Sarcopenia
- Sciatica
- Sepsis
- Shingles (herpes zoster)
- Shock (circulatory failure)
- Systemic lupus erythematosus
- Temporomandibular joint disorder
- Tetanus
- Varicose veins
- Vasculitis (GCA & others)
- Vitamin B1, C and other deficiencies