Pain is suggestive of a femur stress fracture.

Pain is suggestive of a femur stress fracture.

With the patient supine a femoral log roll, internally and externally rotating the femur, and a heel strike, an axial force on the femur, can be performed to assess for possible femur fractures.

With the patient supine a femoral log roll, internally and externally rotation the femur, and a heel strike, an axial force on the femur, can be performed to assess for possible femur fractures.

The examiner places one arm beneath the patient's femur.

A downward force is then applied to the femur distally.

I had a seven inch osteosarcoma in my left femur.

In the left femur, the left thigh bone, there's another one.

With the knee extended push the patella into the trochlear groove of the femur.

Palpate the greater trochanter of the femur, the iliotibial band, and the tensor fasciae latae.

With the knee flexed to thirty degrees, stabilize the femur and pull the proximal tibia anteriorly.

The lumbar spine, the sacroiliac joint, the sacrum, the gluteus maximus muscle, the piriformis muscle, the sciatic notch, the ischial tuberosity, and the adductor tubercle of the proximal femur.

And then I had a 15 hour surgery in which my surgeon, Dr. John Healey at Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital in New York, took out my left femur and replaced it with titanium.

I broke my left femur that day it's the largest bone in your body and spent the next two months in a body cast that went from my chin to the tip of my toe to my right knee, and a steel bar went from my right knee to my left ankle.