Attaching the elastic muscle cords
If you have a basic or full knee kit model, your kit comes with elastic muscle cords ("muscles"). Color-coded by compartment with removable labels, these elastic cords shorten and lengthen as you simulate various knee motions, enabling you to see which muscles shorten and which muscles lengthen during a particular motion. If you have the basic knee model, you'll have four elastic muscle cords, each representing one of the quadriceps muscles.
Photo of basic model with all muscles
If you have a full knee model, you'll have all of the muscles between the superior and inferior cross-section plates.
Photo of full model with all muscles
Muscle color and labeling scheme
The muscles of your knee kit follow a consistent color and labeling scheme to help you easily identify each muscle, its compartment, and its attachment sites.
The muscles are color-coded by compartment
The human limb muscles are organized into fascial compartments. In the case of the lower limb, there are three compartments for the thigh muscles and four compartments for the leg muscles. The muscles in your knee kit are color-coded to correspond to these compartments.
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Thigh |
Anterior: | Yellow |
| Posterior: | Blue | |
| Medial: | Red | |
Leg |
Lateral: | Black |
| Medial: | White | |
| Superficial posterior: | Green | |
| Deep posterior: | Orange | |
Every muscle has a unique 3-letter code
Muscle name
Labels tell you where to attach the muscles
Each attachment site has a letter. Muscle labels have two letters, one for each end.