13: Leg Compartment Flashcards
A. What nerve supplies the medial anterior aspect of the leg?
B. It’s branch/ comes from where?
A. Saphenous nerve
B. From femoral nerve
A. What nerve supplies the lateral anterior aspect of the leg?
B. It’s branch/ comes from where?
A. Lateral sural cutaneous nerve
B. From common fibular nerve
What 3 nerves supply the leg posteriorly?
- Saphenous (medial, from femoral N.)
- Lateral sural cutaneous N. (Lateral, from common fibular N.)
- Medial sural cutaneous N. (from the tibial nerve (L4-S3) and descends in the posterior leg compartment between the two heads of the gastrocnemius)
What are the Superficial veins of the leg? (Mention name, where they come from, where they drain)
- Long or Great Saphenous vein: continuation of medial part of dorsal venous arch, and drains into femoral vein
- Small or Short Saphenous vein: continuation of lateral end of dorsal venous arch, and drains into popliteal vein
Deep or superficial veins have valves? (Why?Function?)
Superficial veins have valves because blood flow opposes gravity, and they don’t have muscles to compress them (in legs)
What’s the consequence of Failure of valves in the superficial vein?
accumulation of blood in superficial veins, which leads to varicose veins
Superficial lymphatics drain into …?
superficial inguinal lymph nodes
deep lymphatics drain into ..?
deep inguinal nodes.
Lymphatic vessels that follow great Saphenous vein drain into ..?
superficial inguinal lymph nodes
Lymphatics that follow small Saphenous vein drain into …?
Popliteal lymph nodes
Lymph vessels and node of lower limb (picture/visualize)
Superficial veins of the leg (picture/visualize)
What happens to lymph in inguinal group?
Deep facia of the leg is also known as?
Crural fascia
Deep facia of the leg (crural fascia) is thick at …………… part as muscles originate form deep facia. (Where?)
proximal anterior
At the ankle region deep fascia forms:
..(a)..retinaculum anteriorly,
..(b).. retinaculum laterally, and
..(c).. retinaculum posteriorly
a = extensor retinaculum
b = peroneal/fibular retinaculum
c = flexor retinaculum
Deep fascia is attached to anterior and posterior borders of tibia, where it is continuous with ….?
periosteum of the tibia.
What divides the leg into anterior, lateral and posterior compartments?
From the deep surface of the deep fascia anterior and posterior intermuscular septum enter the leg and get attached to anterior and posterior borders of fibula. These intermuscular septa along with interosseous membrane(attached to the interosseous border of tibial and fibula) divide the leg into anterior, lateral and posterior compartments with muscles having common function and innervation.
……. divides the posterior compartment muscles into superficial and deep groups
Transverse septum
What type of joint is the ankle joint? What movements happen at this joint?
- Hinge
- plantar flexion & dorsiflexion
Which compartment is dorsiflexor or extensor compartment?
Anterior compartment
Which compartment is Plantar flexors?
Posterior compartment
Evertors of the foot are found at ……. compartment
Lateral
Anterior compartment
A. Muscles?
B. Innervation?
C. Action?
A. Tibialis anterior, Extensor digitorum longus, fibularis tertius, and Extensor hallucis longus.
B. deep fibular nerve
C. Dorsiflexor or Extensor compartment
Lateral compartment
A. Muscles?
B. Innervation?
C. Action?
A. Fibularis longus, Fibularis brevis
B. superficial fibular nerve
C. Evertors of the foot
Posterior compartment
A. Muscles?
B. Innervation?
C. Action?
A. Superficial muscles(Three: Gastrocnemius, Soleus, Plantaris)
Deep muscles (Four: Popliteus, Flexor digitorum longus, Flexor hallucis longus, Tibialis posterior)
B. branches from tibial nerve
C. Plantar flexors
Inversion and eversion occur at the …… joint
Subtalar
Tibialis anterior
A. Origin
B. Insertion
C. Innervation
D. Compartment
E. Action
A. Lateral condyle & superior half of lateral surface of TIBIA
B. Medial & inferior surfaces of medial cuneiform & base of 1st metatarsal
C. Deep fibular N. (L4,5)
D. Anterior compartment
E. Dorsiflexes ankle and inverts foot
Extensor digitorum longus
A. Origin
B. Insertion
C. Innervation
D. Compartment
E. Action
A. Lateral condyle of tibia & superior three quarters of FIBULA
B. Middle and distal phalanges of lateral 4 digits
C. Deep fibular N. (L4,5)
D. Anterior compartment
E. Extends lateral four digits and dorsiflexes ankle