Technical Tuesday Ischial Tuberosity
Earlier this year, I talked about
imagining rockets on your sitz bones, and I briefly described these bones (https://balletwebb.blogspot.com/search?q=sitz).
Today I thought I’d go into a bit more detail.
Technically speaking, “sitz bone” isn’t
a medical term, it’s ischial tuberosity, but that’s quite a mouthful. Here is a
description from
“The ischial tuberosity is a rounded bone that extends
from the ischium — the curved bone that makes up the bottom of your pelvis.
It’s located just below the ischial spine, which is a pointed bone that extends
up the backside of your pelvis.
Three tendons connect the hamstring, a muscle in the
back of your thigh, to the ischial tuberosity. The gluteus maximus muscle
covers the ischial tuberosity when your leg is straight and your thigh is
extended. When your knee is bent and your thigh is flexed, the gluteus maximus
moves and leaves the ischial tuberosity uncovered. This explains why you don’t
have that large gluteus maximum muscle as extra padding for your ischial
tuberosity when you sit down.”
Then there’s this: from (http://newyewhealing.com/you-keep-using-those-anatomy-words-i-do-not-think-they-mean-what-you-think-they-mean/
“Sitz/sits bones – Neither of these are correct. The
correct term is “sit bones.” By itself, “sitz” is not a word, but if you
combine it with “bath” you have a valid term for a type of bath that you sit in
(preferably on your sit bones) to treat pelvic and/or genital issues. Sits
bones is just bad grammar; after all, you don’t sits down, you sit down and
these are the bones you should be sitting on. Actually, the sit bones are
a specific part of one of your pelvic/hip bones.”
Now you know more than
you intended – right?
From the Big
Blue Book of Ballet Secrets
Anatomical Secret #:
“The true
name for sitz or sit bone is ischial tuberosity.”
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blood, bone--the body is only a container for who we truly are inside.”
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― Megan Shepherd, Her Dark Curiosity
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