Pelvic Floor: Neighbors

Community makes everything better. In the pelvic floor these are the next door neighbors:

 
 
This is a schematic of the female pelvic floor.View from Above (looking down, from the diaphragm into the pelvic outlet)The blue circles represent (from top to bottom), the anus, the vaginal opening and the urethra.

This is a schematic of the female pelvic floor.

View from Above (looking down, from the diaphragm into the pelvic outlet)

The blue circles represent (from top to bottom), the anus, the vaginal opening and the urethra.

 
 

Obturator Internus

  • Originates from the inside of the front of the pelvis at the obturator foramen

  • Inserts into the femur at the greater trochanter

  • It rotates the hip into external rotation, stabilizes the hip joint and abducts a flexed thigh

  • Innervated by the Nerve to Obturator Internus from spinal segments L5 and S1

Piriformis

  • Originates from the front side of the sacrum and the sacrotuberous ligament

  • Inserts into the femur at the greater trochanter

  • It rotates the hip into external rotation, stabilizes the hip joint, and abducts a flexed thigh.

  • Innervated by the Nerve to Piriformis from spinal segments S1 and S2

 
 

Pelvic Floor Layers, Side View

 
 

Pelvic Floor Layers, View from Above (looking down, from the diaphragm into the pelvic outlet)

 
 

Pelvic Floor Layers, View from Below (looking up at the pelvic floor, from between the legs)

 
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