Anatomy Flashcards
- Brachial plexus – cord levels
C5-T1
Erb Duchennes Paulsy
C5-6, fall on shoulder, child birth stress, axillary, musculocutaneous, and suprascapular n., waiter’s tip position
Klumpke Paralysis
C8-T1, pulling baby by outstretched arm, catching oneself while falling from tree, ulnar and median nerves, flexion, supination at elbow, wrist extension, claw hand
Paralysis of deep branch of radial nerve, can’t ____ hand, test by extending MP joints and looking for ______
Extension, tendons on dorsum of hand
Fracture at midshaft of humerus (or saturday night paulsy) what nerve? what muscles? what sensation?
Radial, brachioradialis, extensors of wrist and fingers, supinators, tricpes, posterior arm, dorsal thumb, dorsal hand
Sign: radial deviation of wrist upon flexion, what sensory
lesion of ulnar nerve at medial epicondyle, medial 1.5 digits
Distal Lesion, three muscle actions, sensory, and sign
fracture of hook of hamate, interossei (ab/adduction of fingers, lumbricals (flexion of 4th and 5th digits, adduction of thumb, hand of benediction
Froment’s sign is done by _______, and tests the ________
having pt pinch piece of paper between thumb and pointer finger, adductor pollicis
in carpal tunnel you will get _____ deviation upon wrist flexion
ulnar
ape hand is a defecit in ____ due to ____-
oppositon of the thumb, median lesion at the wrist impairing the thenar muscles
two variations of sign of benediction
Distal ulnar lesion (4th and 5th digits clawed)
Proximal Median lesion: (can only flex 3rd and 4th due to ulnar lumbricals still in tact)
can be injured in masectomy and causes winged scapula
Long Thoracic Nerve
levator scapulae and rhomboideus major
Dorsal scapular n. C5
serratus anterior
Long thoracic n. C5-7
supraspinatus and infraspinatus
Suprascaular n. C5-6