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Jun 20, 2017 · The deep six lateral rotators are a group of muscles that move the hip. Individually they are small, but together they are quite powerful. We covered one of the deep six lateral rotators, the piriformis, already. While you may not have heard of each of these muscle names, the group is an important one to consider in yoga.
Nov 19, 2013 · The six deep external rotator muscles of your hip are the piriformis, superior gemellus, inferior gemellus, obturator internus, obturator externus, and quadratus femoris. They all allow you to move your leg back and out, and to rotate your leg outward.
The overall job of the deep six lateral rotators is to keep the “ball” of the ball and socket joint (the greater trochanter of the femur) in the “socket” (the acetabulum of the pelvis) when we are walking, running or doing other movements (Yoo et al., 2015). Specifically, all six of these muscles laterally rotate the femur at the hip joint.
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As I’ve already alluded to, how the deep six lateral muscles act in movement depends on the position of the body. It’s important that we remember that our body is three-dimensional! For example, Chaitow and DeLany, 2011 refer to a “piriformis paradox.”. In open chain, unilateral movement, the piriformis does lateral rotation of the ...
Anatomical terms of muscle. [ edit on Wikidata] The lateral rotator group is a group of six small muscles of the hip which all externally (laterally) rotate the femur in the hip joint. It consists of the following muscles: piriformis, gemellus superior, obturator internus, gemellus inferior, quadratus femoris and the obturator externus. [1]
