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What is the nerve supply to the anterior compartment of the thigh?
From which spinal nerves?

A

Femoral nerve

L2,3,4

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What is the nerve supply to the medial compartment of the thigh?
From which spinal nerves?

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Obturator

L2,3,4

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What is the nerve supply to the posterior compartment of the thigh?

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Sciatic nerve

L4-S3

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What muscles are found in the anterior compartment of thigh?

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Vastus medius
Vastus intermedius
Vastus lateralis
Rectus femoris
Sartorius
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What is the function of the muscles in the anterior compartment of the thigh?

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Extensors of the knee

*Except sartorius which flexes both knee and hip

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What muscles make up the ā€œNā€ shape on the anterior thigh?

What sections do they divide the thigh muscles into?

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Tensor Fascia Latae, Sartorius, Gracilis

Upper part is the inguinal triangle/adductor group
Lower part is the quadriceps muscle group

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On what anatomical structure do you measure the knee reflex?

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Patellar tendon/ligament

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From anterior to posterior, what is the order of the three muscles that insert on the medial proximal part of the tibia, and what is this group called?

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Muscles: Sartorius, Gracilis, Semitendinosus

Group: Pes Anserine

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What dermatome covers the medial side of the knee?

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L3

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What dermatome covers the anterior side of the knee?

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L4

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What dermatome covers the heel?

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S1

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What dermatome covers the 1st interdigital area in feet?

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L5

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What are the two main branches of the sciatic nerve?

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Tibial nerve & Common fibular nerve

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What muscles are found in the femoral/inguinal triangle?

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Iliacus
Psoas major
Pectineus
Adductor longus

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What is the medial line on the femur where the muscles attach to?
What group of muscles attach here?

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Linea aspera

Adductor muscles in medial compartment of thigh (except gracilis which inserts on the tibia)

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What muscles are found in the medial compartment of the thigh?

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Pectineus
Adductor brevis
Adductor longus
Adductor magnus
Gracilis
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What muscles insert onto the tibial tuberosity?

What is the function of these muscles

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Vastus medialis
Vastus intermedius
Vastus Longus
Rectus femoris

Fxn: knee extension

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What are the branches of the sciatic nerve?

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Common fibular & tibial nerves

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What nerve originates from L2-L3?

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Lateral cutaneous nerve of the thigh.

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What innervates the medial side of the leg and foot?

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Great saphenous nerve

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What forms the lumbar plexus?

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Anterior rami of L1-L4

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How/where does the femoral nerve enter the thigh?

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Deep to the inguinal ligament

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What does the femoral nerve innervate?

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  • anterior thigh muscles

- skin of anterior and medial thigh

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What branches from the femoral nerve?

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Saphenous nerve

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What innervates all the muscles on the posterior leg? | - What else does this nerve innervate?
Tibial nerve | - innervates muscles on posterior leg and sole of foot
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Which muscle is responsible for unlocking the knee? | - what nerve innervates it?
Popliteus muscle | - innervated by tibial nerve
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What are the main compartments of the leg?
Anterior, Lateral, and Posterior (deep & superficial)
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What muscles are found in the superficial part of the posterior leg?
Gastrocnemius & Soleus (together called "triceps surea")
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What muscles are found in the deep part of the posterior leg?
- Tibialis posterior - Popliteus - Flexor hallucis longus - Flexor digitorum longus
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When does the femoral artery become something else? | - what does it become?
Femoral artery becomes the popliteal artery as it passes through the adductor hiatus (in the adductor magnus).
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What are the branches of the popliteal artery?
Anterior Tibial Artery and Posterior Tibial Artery (which has the fibular/peroneal artery branching off of it)
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What artery branches into the plantar arteries?
Posterior Tibial Artery
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What is the superficial vein on the posterior leg?
Small saphenous vein
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Where does the great saphenous vein run?
Medial leg and thigh (passes posterior to knee)
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What nerve branches from the tibial nerve and joins with a communicating branch from the common fibular nerve? - what does it innervate? - from which spinal segments does it arise?
Sural nerve - innervates posterolateral side of leg and lateral side of foot - arises from L5-S2
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What muscles are found in the lateral leg compartment?
Fibularis (Peroneus) Longus & Fibularis (Peroneus) Brevis
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What innervates the lateral compartment of the leg?
Superficial fibular (peroneal) nerve
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What muscles are found in the anterior compartment of the leg?
- extensor hallucis longus - extensor digitorum longus - fibularis (peroneus) tertius - tibialis anterior
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What is the innervation for the anterior compartment of the leg?
Deep fibular (peroneal) nerve
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What does the superficial fibular (peroneal) nerve supply?
Fibularis brevis & longus; skin of dorsum of foot (except for first interdigital cleft)
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What is the function of the fibularis tertius?
dorsiflexion & eversion of foot
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What is the function of the tibialis anterior?
dorsiflexion & inversion of foot
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What is the action of the gluteus medius?
Abduction of hip joint
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What is the action of the gluteus maximus?
Extension of hip
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What is the action of the iliopsoas?
Flexion
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What is the function of the deep peroneal nerve?
Dorsiflexion & Inversion of foot; extension of hallux. | Sensory to 1st web space.
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What is the function of the superficial peroneal nerve?
Ankle eversion and sensory to dorsum of foot
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What attaches to the ASIS?
Sartorius
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What attaches to the AIIS (anterior inferior iliac spine)?
Rectus Femoris
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What is the origin of the muscles in the posterior thigh?
Ischial tuberosity (and the short head of the biceps femoris attaches to the shaft of the femur)
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What ligament attaches to the medial malleolus?
Deltoid ligament

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