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TENAN, MS, Y.-L. PENG, AC HACKNEY, AND L. GRIFFIN. Menstrual Cycle Mediates Vastus Medialis and Vastus Medialis Oblique Muscle Activity. Med. Sci. Sports Exerc., Vol. 45, No. 11, pp. 2151–2157, 2013. Purpose: Sports medicine professionals commonly describe two functionally different units of the vastus medialis (VM), the VM, and the vastus medialis oblique (VMO), but the anatomical support is equivocal. The functional difference of the VMO is principle to rehabilitation programs designed to alleviate anterior knee pain, a pathology that is known to have a greater occurrence in women. The purpose of this study was to determine whether the motor units of the VM and