Gross anatomy

• Lumber sacral angle or sacral base angle or ferguson's angle– is classified differently in different text. It is the angle at which the top of the sacrum points in relation to horizontal tends to be about 41 degrees on average. The flatter the sacral top is the less slippage there will be and the less back pain. Women can have problems due to pregnancy with this angle due to bulging bellies , extra weight and lax ligaments caused
• by hormones.

Lumbar sacral angle - Alternate way to calculate lumber sacral angle –you create a line through the lumbar vertebrea and aligned through the sacrum and this line creates the angle. So they look at the angle between the lumbar and the sacrum

41 degrees

Posterior pelvic tilt is when the ASIS's are posterior to the pubic symphsis or pubic tubercle. When there in line with the pubic tubercle they are neutral and when the ASIS is anterior to the pubic tubercle this is anterior tilt.

Anterior pelvic tilt creates greater lordosis of the lumbar spine.

coxa valgus - would you make you bow legged, because the knee would be pushed in makiing the femur stick out.