UE Neurology

Question 1

Injury that affect C5 & C6 anterior rami
Usually a result of dramatically increasing the angle between the neck and the shoulder
Ruptures spinal roots off spinal cord

Answer 1

Upper plexus injury

Question 2

Individual has an adducted and medially rotate arm and an extended elbow

Answer 2

“Waiter’s Tip Position” /Erb-Duchenne Palsy

Question 3

“Waiter Tip Position/Erb-Duchenne Palsy is a injury to the

Answer 3

Upper plexus

Question 4

Injury that results from dramatically increasing the angle between the trunk & upper limb

Answer 4

Lower Plexus injury

Question 5

Injury that results in “claw hand” when individual tries to make a fist
Klumpke Paralysis

Answer 5

Lower Plexus injury

Question 6

Results from prolonged periods of working with the upper limb over the head
Pain radiating down the arm , loss of sensation, tingling of the arms,& weakness of the hands

Answer 6

Compression of the cords of the brachial plexus

Question 7

Rare injury with blunt force trauma & renders the anterior brachial muscles paralyzed
“Getting punched in the arm/gut really hard”

Answer 7

Musculocutaneous N. Injury

Question 8

Results in atrophy of the deltoid m.

Loss of sensation over the superolateral arm where superior lateral brachial cutaneous n is

Answer 8

Axially n injury

Question 9

Injury is which one is unable to abduct arm

Answer 9

Axillary n injury

Question 10

Injury that results in adducted thumb & thenar eminence atrophy

Answer 10

Injury of median n of the wrist

Question 11

“Ape’s Hand”

Answer 11

Injury of median n at the wrist

Question 12

Injury that inhibits flexion of 2nd & 3rd digits

Answer 12

Injury at the median n of the elbow

Question 13

“Hand of Benediction”

Answer 13

Injury of the median n at the elbow

Question 14

Occurs:
Posterior to the medial humeral epicondyle
Between the ulnar & humeral heads of the flexor carpi ulnaris m. (Cubital tunnel
At the wrist or hand

Answer 14

Ulnar N. Injury

Question 15

Ulnar N. Injury produces what kind of physical result

Answer 15

Claw hand

Question 16

Injury that results from pressure is placed on the hamulus of the hamate b like when riding a bike

Answer 16

Ulnar n. Injury

“Handlebar neuropathy”

Question 17

Sensory loss on the medial side of the hand & weakness of the intrinsic hand muscles

Answer 17

Handlebar neuropathy

Ulnar n injury

Question 18

Results in “wrist drop”

Impairment of elbow extension and thumb abduction and extension

Answer 18

Injury of the radial n.