The knee joint receives its arterial blood supply from anastomoses around the knee. It has four main nerve supplies: the femoral, obturator, tibial, and common peroneal nerves. There are four main movements of the knee joint: flexion by the hamstring and gastrocnemius muscles, extension by the quadriceps femoris muscle, locking by the biceps femoris muscle which medially rotates the femur on the tibia, and unlocking by the popliteus and sartorius muscles which laterally rotate the femur on the tibia when standing or medially rotate the tibia when supine or sitting.