Anatomy

Question 1

What are the symptoms of cubital tunnel?

Answer 1

Sensory/motor symptoms in the little finger / ulnar half of the ring finger / intrinsic muscles of the hand

Question 2

What nerve is compressed in cubital tunnel?

Answer 2

Ulnar nerve

Question 3

Who gets ulnar compression of Guyon’s canal

Answer 3

Cyclists

Question 4

What nerve passes through Guyon’s canal

Answer 4

Ulnar

Question 5

What is the clinical difference between cubital tunnel syndrome and Guyon’s cannal syndrome?

Answer 5

Motor symptoms and claw hand may be more pronounced in Guyon’s cannal, the back of the hand will have normal sensation and there will be no muscle wasting in the forearm

Question 6

What nerve is affected in carpal tunnel?

Answer 6

Median

Question 7

What are the symptoms of carpal tunnel?

Answer 7

Numbness/tingling/burning in thumb, index and middle fingers and radial half of the ring finger +/- thumb muscle wasting

Question 8

What injury is likely to result from an inversion of the ankle

Answer 8

Rupture of anterior talobular ligament

Question 9

What injury might result from an eversion injury of the ankle

Answer 9

Deltoid ligament

Question 10

What nerve is the cutaneous supply to the medial side of the leg?

Answer 10

Saphenous nerve

Question 11

What muscle causes pain on active flexion of the hip (main flexor of the hip joint)?

Answer 11

Iliopsoas

Question 12

What does the gluteus medius and minimus do?

Answer 12

Abduction of the hip (and keep the pelvis level)

Question 13

When you lift your leg to the side, which gluteus medius and minimus contract?

Answer 13

The left

Question 14

Where in the humerus might a fracture cause damage to the radial nerve

Answer 14

Midshaft fracture of humerus

Question 15

What nerve might be damaged in a fracture of the anatomical neck of the humerus?

Answer 15

Axillary

Question 16

What nerve might be damaged in a supracondylar fracture of humerus?

Answer 16

Medial nerve and brachial artery

Question 17

What nerve causes wrist drop?

Answer 17

Radial

Question 18

What nerve causes claw hand?

Answer 18

Ulnar

Question 19

Describe the venous drainage of the leg (non-saphenous pathway)

Answer 19

Posterior tibial - popliteal - femoral - external iliac - common iliac

Question 20

Where is the ligamentum flavum

Answer 20

Connecting the laminae of adjacent vertebrae

Question 21

Where is the anterior longitudinal ligament

Answer 21

Running down the anterior surface of the spine, traversing all of the vertebral bodies and intervertebral discs

Question 22

Where is the posterior longitudinal ligament

Answer 22

Within the vertebral canal, extending along the posterior surfaces of the bodies of the vertebrae

Question 23

What nerve roots are involved in the ankle jerk reflex?

Answer 23

S1,2

Question 24

What nerve roots are involved in the knee jerk reflex?

Answer 24

L3,4

Question 25

What nerve roots are involved in the bicep reflex?

Answer 25

C5,6

Question 26

What nerve roots are involved in the triceps reflex?

Answer 26

C7,8

Question 27

What injury causes foot drop?

Answer 27

Fracture of the left neck of the bula

Question 28

Damage to which nerve causes foot drop?

Answer 28

Common fibular

Question 29

What nerve supplies the first web space?

Answer 29

Deep fibular nerve

Question 30

What kind of symptoms would you get from a lumbar intervertebral disc pathology

Answer 30

Back pain, nerve root level pain etc

Question 31

Internal capsule pathology causes ____peligia?

Answer 31

Hemiplegia

Question 32

Where does the great saphenous vein lie in relation to the patella?

Answer 32

Posteriomedial

Question 33

What is a swelling of the great saphenous vein called?

Answer 33

Phlebitis

Question 34

What does the tibial nerve supply?

Answer 34

Posterior compartment of leg

Question 35

When is compartment syndrome most painful?

Answer 35

On stretching (using the muscles on the opposite side to the compartment affected eg compartment syndrome in the anterior compartment of leg will cause pain when using posterior compartment/tibial nerve)

Question 36

What can cause a Trendelenburg sign?

Answer 36

Congenital hip dislocation, total hip replacement etc

Question 37

Damage to what nerve causes a Trendelenburg sign?

Answer 37

Superior gluteal nerve

Question 38

What movement of the spine does not exacerbate spinal stenosis

Answer 38

Flexion eg walking uphill, cycling etc

Question 39

What artery is the dorsalis pedis a continuation of?

Answer 39

Anterior tibial

Question 40

Which artery is felt in the medial malleolus?

Answer 40

Posterior tibial

Question 41

What do the posterior rami supply

Answer 41

Muscles and sensation to the back

Question 42

What is another name for the precentral gyrus?

Answer 42

Primary somatomotor cortex

Question 43

What cavity would you find the lumbosacral plexus in?

Answer 43

Pelvic cavity

Question 44

Rupture of what tendon would cause weakness at the knee and unable to straight leg raise but pain-free weight-bearing

Answer 44

Quadriceps tendon

Question 45

What will cause referred pain to the epigastric region?

Answer 45

Foregut

Question 46

What will cause referred pain to the suprapubic region?

Answer 46

Hindgut