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dorsiflexor

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dorsiflexor
[dôr′siflek′sər]
a muscle causing backward flexion of a part of the body, as the hand or foot.


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1-2-hip flexors (iliopsoas muscles), 1-3-knee extensors (quadriceps femoris muscles), L4=ankle dorsiflexors, L5=long toe extensors (extensor hallucis longus muscles), S1=ankle plantar flexors (gastrocnemius and soleus muscles).
12,13 Overactivity of these groups causes reciprocal inhibition of the long toe extensors and ankle dorsiflexors (Le.
He was diagnosed with acute tenosynovitis of the ankle dorsiflexors and was treated conservatively.
 
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