Anatomy Exam 2 Lower Extremities Flashcards
What are the three sites of access for nerves and vessels to pass from the abdomen to the leg
- Posterior to the Inguinal ligament
- Obturator Canal
- Greater Sciatic Foramen
What communicates via the posterior ingunal space?
The femoral nerve and vessels from the abdomen to the leg
What communicates through the Obturator canal?
The obturator nerve and vessels between the pelvis and the medial part of the thigh.
What communicates through the greater sciatic canal?
The sciatic and gluteal nerves and vessels from the pelvic region to the gluteal region
What area is innervated by the femoral nerve?
The anterior compartment of the thigh
What area is innervated by the obtuator nerve?
The medial compartment of the thigh
What area is innervated by the sciatic nerve?
The posterior compartment of the thigh and all compartments of the foot and leg.
The great saphenous vein drains what?
The entire leg except the lateral side and the foot
Where are the inguinal lymph nodes palpable?
Distal to the inguinal ligament.
Attachment and insertion of the Iliotibial tract.
Attaches at the Inguinal ligament and iliac crest. Inserts at the deep fascia of the leg.
What attaches to the IT band?
Gluteus maximus and tensor fascia lata
Muscles of the anterior compartment of the thigh which can secondarily flex the hip.
Rectus femoris and sartorious
The five muscles of the anterior thigh are innervated by?
The femoral nerve
Boundaries of the femoral triangle?
Upper- Inguinal ligament
Lateral- Medial border of the satorius
Medial- Medial border of the adductor longus
Roof- Fascia lata
Floor- Iliopsoas, adductor longus and pectinious
Contents of the femoral triangle?
- Femoral vessels
- Femoral nerves
- Deep inguinal lymph nodes
What is the adductor canal?
Intramuscular space linking the femoral triangle with the popliteal fossa.
Contents of the adductor canal.
- Femoral artery and vein
- Nerve to the vastus medialis
- Saphrenous nerve
Roots of the femoral nerve
L2 -L4
Branches of the superficial femoral nerve
- Medial and intermediate cutaneous nerves of the thigh
- Nerves to the pectineous and sartorious
Branches of the deep femoral nerve
- Nerves to the quadriceps muscles
- Saphrenous nerve
Anterior layer of the medial compartment of the thigh.
- Pectineous
- Adductor longus
- Gracilus
Intermediate layer of the medial compartment of the thigh
Adductor brevis
Posterior layer of the medial compartment of the thigh
- Adductor madnus
- Obtuator externalis
Function of the muscles of the medial compartment of the thigh?
All muscles adduct the thigh at the hip
Innervation of the medial compartment of the thigh?
All muscles are supplied by the obtuator nerve EXCEPT the pectineous which is supplied by the femoral nerve
Blood supply of the medial compartment of the thigh?
From the profundus femoris and some from the branches of the optuator artery and some from the femoral artery
Name the gluteus muscles
- Gluteus maximus
- Gluteus medius
- Gluteus minimus
Function of the gluteus maximus
Abducts and extends the thigh at the hip
Function of the fascia lata
Tenses the iliotibial tract
Function of the the gluteus minimus and medius
Abduction and medial rotation of the thigh at the hip
If the piriformis muscle becomes inflamed what condition may arise
Sciatica (pain in the buttock and down the back of the leg)
Name the short muscles of the buttock
- Piriformis
- Superior and inferior Gamelli
- Obturator internus
- Quadratus femoris
What is the function of the short muscles of the buttock?
Laterally rotate the thigh at the hip