ANAT101 Week Six

Muscles located behind the medial malleoli typically perform which action?

• Plantarflexion

• Dorsiflexion

Muscles located lateral to the AP axis of the foot perform which action?

• Eversion

• Inversion

Select the three muscles that make up the ‘triceps surae’ group

• Soleus

• Peroneus brevis

• Peroneus longus

• Plantaris

• Gastrocnemius

Select the correct order of tendons of muscles running behind the medial malleolus

• Flexor digitorum longus

• Tibialis posterior

• Flexor hallucis longus

Which of the following muscles performs inversion and dorsiflexion?

• Tibialis posterior

• Peroneus longus

• Peroneus brevis

• Tibialis anterior

The superior and inferior extensor retinaculum bind down and prevent bow-stringing of the tendons of which muscles?

• Tibialis anterior

• Extensor hallucis longus

• Peroneus tertius

• Extensor digitorum longus

• Peroneus brevis