The rectus femoris (RF) is one of the four muscles found in the quadriceps and is the only one involved in hip flexion. This is because it’s the only one that is attached at the pelvis and not ...

Until recently, injuries at this location would have been considered a myofascial injury rather than musculotendinous, including in the original BAMIC publication.2 The importance of understanding its ...

Seven of the 15 rectus femoris injuries involved the central (intramuscular) tendon. They described a typical MRI appearance (figure 2D) showing a feather-like pattern of injury in the coronal T2 view ...