Clinical Application Of Cranial Flashcards
What is the area most common for the E tube to be constricted or blocked?
Base of the skull between the temporal bone and sphenoid bone.
Where does the E tube actually lie in the cranium?
Groove between the petrous temporal bone and the greater wing of the sphenoid
Big cause of headaches he talked about and which 5 arteries are involved?
Vasodilation and then arteries involved with the dura and tentorium or membranes. Middle meningeal and superficial temporal. And then the anterior, middle and intra cranial portion of the internal carotid artery.
What about veins and headaches? Which veins are particularly involved.
Impairing venous drainage can cause headaches, especially messing with those intracranial veins that have Dural envelopes. Super and inferior sagittal sinus. Transverse and straight sinus.
What did he say happens when we treat the cervicals?
The cervical plexus is right there which innervate the neck musculature, so hopefully there can be release of the plexus if that is the problem.
How do we treat Bell’s palsy of the facial nerve?
The problem is external rotation of the temporal bone so need to fix that.
What 3 foramen are we dealing with when the trigeminal nerve splits and exits? Which specific parts of trigeminal leave where? What bones are the exits found?
Superior orbital fissure, V1, sphenoid bone. Foramen rotundum, v2, sphenoid bone. Foramen ovale, V3, sphenoid bone.
Where is the trigemnial ganglia located?
Temporal bone in meckels cave
What position of the temporal bone puts a lot of pressure on the tentorium cerebelli?
External rotation
What is the opposite for the frontal eminence when doing V spread?
OM suture
Opposite for pterion?
Parietomastoid
Opposite for asterion?
Pterion
What are the 5 things you can treat with temporal rocking or the 5 finger hold?
Entrapment of 9,10,11. E tube compression. Jugular vein compression. Temporal bone dysfunction. Ringing.
