Hamstring Nerve: A Case Report

Hamstring muscles which arise from ischial tuberosity are supplied by muscular branches from tibial part of sciatic nerve, while short head of biceps femoris is supplied by common peroneal part of sciatic nerve. During Bilateral lower limb dissection of formalin preserved 45 year old male cadaver in the Post-graduate Department of Anatomy Government Medical College Srinagar we came across a case where the hamstring muscles arising from ischial tuberosity including the ischial part of adductor magnus were supplied by a common nerve arising below piriformis medial to the main sciatic nerve.