Elbow muscle

The muscles of the human forearm are divided into flexor muscles (elbow and brachialis) and extensor muscles (triceps). This type of muscle is designed to flex the arm at the elbow joint. In newborn children, there are normally about 20 of them; by adulthood, their number decreases to 5. In addition to the muscle itself, there are also its supraspinal sections, which provide conscious control of the muscle.

This muscle is the longest in the body and is located slightly above the humerus. It has two heads: deep, which begins on the back of the brachialis muscle, and superficial, starting behind the humeral process of the ulna. The muscle extensions are connected by tendons. Vessels and nerves pass between them. The blood vessels are represented by a deep artery through which blood flows to the entire arm. The saphenous nerve of the forearm is localized on the surface. The olecranon process is also connected to the coronoid process by the surface, to the trapezoid process by the deep surface, and to the muscle heads by the superficial side.