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KEYPOINTS
• With 23 muscles that attach to it, the
femur is an engineering marvel that forms
the hip joint at its proximal end.
• Because of how much we sit, hip
extension occurs less often than flexion
and internal and external rotation, which
can eventually cause hip problems.
Celebrating
the Femur
An Excerpt from The Memory Palace of Bones
By David Lauterstein
and Jeff Rockwell
