Upper limb Flashcards

1
Q

What are the compartments of the arm?

A

Anterior and posterior

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2
Q

What are the compartments of the forearm?

A

Anterior , posterior and lateral

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3
Q

What are the two joints in the shoulder girdle?

A

Acromioclavicular

Glenohumeral

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4
Q

What is the lip of the glenoid fossa called?

A

Labrum

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5
Q

What nerve is commonly injured in anterior shoulder dislocations?

A

Axillary nerve

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6
Q

What three things stabalise a joint?

A

Articular surfaces

Ligaments

Muscles

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7
Q

Out line the arterial supply of the arm

A

Subclavian artery

axillary artery

Brachial artery

In the fore arm

brachial artery splits into the radial and ulna artery

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8
Q

Outline the venous drainage of the arm

A

Subclavian

Axillary vein

the Basilic vein goes medial and cephalic vein goes lateral

Median cubital vein joins the too at the elbow

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9
Q

What are the roots of the brachial plexus?

A

C5 - T1

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10
Q

What neumonic will help you remember the nerves of the brachial plexus?

A

Most alcoholic must realily urinate

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11
Q

What does the brachial plexus look like?

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12
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What are the neves coming out of the brachial plexus from lateral to medial?

A

Musculocutaneous

Axillary

Median

Radial
Ulnar

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13
Q

What is the most lateral nerve in the brachial plexus?

A

Musculocutaneous nerve

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14
Q

Where does the musculocutaneous nerve go?

A

Goes anterior compartment of the arm and exits laterally in the forearm

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15
Q

What does the musculocutaneous nerve do?

A

Anterior flexor compartment of the arm

If you hurt your musculocutaneous nerve you cant show off your muscles

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16
Q

Where does the axillary nerve go ?

A

Posterior to the surgical neck of the humerous

17
Q

What muscles does the axillary nerve supply?

A

deltoid and teres minor

18
Q

What happens if you injure your axiallry nerve?

A

Cant abduct from 15 to 90 degress

Loss of sensation at soldier’s patch

19
Q

Where does your median nerve go ?

A

Median too the elbow , right down the middle

20
Q

What does the medan nerve supply (motor)

A

Lateral flexors of the wrist

Thenar eminence ( thumb )

two lateral lumbricles

21
Q

What does the median nerve supply ( sensory)

A

Lateral three and 1/2 fingers

Palmar surface

Finger tips

22
Q

What does median nerve damage result in?

A

Thenar atrophy

Loss of thumb opposition

Median claw hand

23
Q

Where does the radial nerve go ?

A

Down the raidal grove of the humerus

24
Q

What does the radial nerve supply (motor)?

A

Triceps

Extensors of the wrist

25
Q

What does the radial nerve supply? Sensory

A

Posterior arm

26
Q

Where does the ulna nerve go?

A

Posterior to the medial epicondyle

27
Q

What does the ulna nerve innervate (motor)?

A

Medial flexors of the wrist

Medial lumbrical muscles

28
Q

What does the ulna nerve invervate (sensory)

A

Palamr and dorsal fingers of the medial two digits

29
Q

What nerve is injured in fractures to the humeral shaft?

A

Radial nerve

30
Q

what nerve supplies most of the dorsum of the hand?

A

Radial nerve

31
Q

How can you injure your ulnar nerve?

A

Compression in the cubital canal

Injury at med epidondyle

32
Q

What nerve is damaged in supracondylar fractues and elbow dislocations?

A

median nerve

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