The deep hip rotators

What it does

Beneath the buttock, a group of short muscles runs from the pelvis to the back of the femur. The two gemelli, the obturators and quadratus femoris turn the thigh outwards and hold the head of the femur snugly in its socket, a little like a rotator cuff for the hip.

Nearby

• The piriformis
• The hip capsule
• The thigh bone

Read more

• Gemelli, obturator internus and externus, quadratus femoris — Wikipedia