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Femur (regio femoris) · Stehno
Muscles
Looks like
The femur — the longest, strongest bone — with quadriceps in front and hamstrings behind.
What it does
Straightens and bends the knee and carries the load of every step.
Keeping it well
Warm up before sprinting, build both front and back evenly.
Its parts
Related conditions
- Achondroplasia
- Acromegaly
- Avascular necrosis (osteonecrosis)
- Bone metastases and spinal cord compression
- Botulism
- Chronic venous insufficiency
- Clotting disorders (thrombophilia & APS)
- Deep vein thrombosis
- Dermatomyositis and polymyositis
- Fibromyalgia
- Fractures
- Fragility fracture
- Frailty & falls in older age
- Fungal skin infection (tinea)
- Growing pains
- Heat exhaustion & heatstroke
- Hernia (inguinal, hiatal, umbilical)
- High blood pressure
- High cholesterol
- Hyperparathyroidism
- Hypothermia & frostbite
- Kawasaki disease
- Lymphatic filariasis (elephantiasis)
- Lymphoedema
- Malnutrition & refeeding syndrome
- Metabolic syndrome
- Muscle strain (pulled muscle)
- Muscular dystrophy
- Orthostatic hypotension & POTS
- Osgood–Schlatter disease
- Osteogenesis imperfecta (brittle bone disease)
- Osteomalacia & rickets
- Osteomyelitis (bone infection)
- Osteoporosis
- Paget's disease of bone
- Peripheral artery disease
- Perthes disease
- Phaeochromocytoma & hyperaldosteronism
- Poliomyelitis
- Polymyalgia rheumatica
- Pre-eclampsia
- Raynaud's phenomenon
- Restless legs syndrome
- Rhabdomyolysis
- Runner's knee (patellofemoral pain)
- Sarcoma
- Sarcopenia
- Sepsis
- Shock (circulatory failure)
- Slipped capital femoral epiphysis
- Spinal muscular atrophy
- Superficial thrombophlebitis
- Tetanus
- Trichinellosis
- Varicose veins
- Vasculitis (GCA & others)
- Vitamin B1, C and other deficiencies
- Vitamin D deficiency