Name.

Zainulabidin
Roll No. DPT02201029
Assignment. Kinesiology
Submitted to. Dr. Ayesha Noureen
Two joint Muscle.
Two joint muscles are the muscles that
crosses the two joints of the body and
therefore perform more than one joint
function.

Explanation.
1. In the Legs there are different muscles
which act as two joint muscle work.
2. Rectus femoris crosses the hip and
knee and performs hip flexion and
knee extension.
3. Sartorius crosses the hip and knee and
performs hip flexion and knee flexion.
4. Hamstring crosses the hip and knee
and performs hip extension and knee
flexion.
5. Gastrocnemius crosses the knee and
ankle and performs knee flexion and
plantar flexion.
6. In the Arms there are different
muscles which act as two joint Muscle
work.
7. Biceps short head crosses the shoulder
and elbow performs elbow and
shoulder flexion and also pronates.
8. Triceps long head crosses the shoulder
and elbow and performs elbow and
shoulder extension.
9. These joints are designed for efficiency
of movement .
10. Less energy is required to move the
two joint with same muscles then
engage two different muscle.
11. They are used for power movement
walking Running jumping, climbing.
12. They transfer the energy ease of
control muscle bulk reduction and
decreased velocity of muscle
contraction.
13. The strategy was used to partition the
sagittal plane joint moment at the hip
knee and ankle between the one and
two joint muscle which crosses these
joints. There are different examples of
these joints are in below.

Two Examples.
Rectus Femoris.
Function.
1. Crosses hip and knee
2. Performs hip flexion and knee
extension.

Explanation.

1. Rectus femoris is the part of the

Quadriceps muscle group.
2. It is the bulk of muscle located in
the superior Anterior middle
compartment of the thigh and it is
the only muscle in the Quadriceps
that crosses the hip.
Angle.
It is the two way acting muscle as it crosses
the over the hip and knee joint therefore it
contributes to the 90° of knee flexion and
the assists iliopsoas in hip flexion.

Role in knee extension.

Together with other muscles that are part
of the Quadriceps femoris it plays knee
Extension.

Example.
Swing.
In terminal swing phase Rectus femoris act
as an extensor of knee as a muscle in the
Quadriceps group. It generate a force
needed for loading. Foot flat phase.
Kicking.
Rectus femoris is more efficient in
movement combining hip hyper extension
and knee flexion or from a position of knee
extension and hip flexion.
• Kicking a soccer ball.
Sartorius.
• Crosses the hip and knee joint
• Performs hip flexion and knee flexion.
Thin long superficial muscles in the
Anterior compartment of the thigh.
It runs down the length of thigh runs over
two joint hip and knee. It is the longest
muscle in the human body.
Example.
At the hip it flexes, weakly abducts,
and rotates the thigh laterally At the
knee, it can flex the leg; when the knee
is flexed, it also rotates the leg medially.
This muscle plays an important part in
stabilisation of the pelvis—especially
in women. This is due to the
constrictive effect which the muscles on
both sides of the body have on the
pubic symphysis
Pattern of two joint muscle
work.
Two joint Muscles have two different
pattern of Joint muscle action are.
1. Concurrent pattern
2. Counter concurrent pattern.

Concurrent pattern.
In the squat position you can see that in
the Rectus Femoris when the hip flexion the
Muscle is going to shorten Rectus femoris
muscle going to shorter and as your knee is
Flexing at the same time and it stretches
over the patella they will lengthen your
knee.
 • Simultaneous your muscle shorten at
your hip and lengthen at your knee this
pattern is known as concurrent pattern.

Counter concurrent.
The best example of counter concurrent
pattern is kicking a football.
First of all when we kick a foot ball our
Rectus Femoris is as we flex our hip more
and more it is causing the muscle to be
shorter. And our Antagonist muscle will
Stretched Lengthen or passive Tension.
• Opposite movement on both joints.
• Only one muscle or group of muscle in
one direction.
• The muscle will be shortened at both
ends simultaneously.
 • Tension will be Transmitted from the
shortened muscle to the elongated
group of muscle.

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