ClnMed

Question 1

Layer that covers the whole nerve

Answer 1

Epineurium

Question 2

Layer that covers each nerve fascicle

Answer 2

Perineurium

Question 3

Layer that covers each individual fiber

Answer 3

Endoneurium

Question 4

This type of nerve is myelinated, largest, and fastest conducting- it provides information on proprioception and somatic motor function

Answer 4

Alpha motor neuron

Question 5

This type of nerve is myelinated and senses touch and pressure

Answer 5

Beta fiber

Question 6

This type of nerve provides motor to muscle spindles

Answer 6

Gamma (myelinated)

Question 7

This type of nerve fiber is small and senses pain cold and touch

Answer 7

Delta (myelinated)

Question 8

A nerve that has been transected in the distal segment of a nerve

Answer 8

Wallerian degeneration

Question 9

What type of pathological nerve process occurs in guianne barre

Answer 9

Segmental demyelination

Question 10

Area of bone supplied by one nerve

Answer 10

Sclerotome

Question 11

Which nerve has radiculopathy? Scapula or shoulder pain, lateral arm loss of sensory, weakness in shoulder abduction, loss of biceps DTR

Answer 11

C5

Question 12

Which nerve has radiculopathy? Scapula or shoulder pain, loss of sensory to 1st and 2nd digit, weakness with elbow flexion and shoulder abduction, loss of biceps DTR

Answer 12

C6

Question 13

Which nerve has radiculopathy? Pain in scapula or elbow or forearm, sensory loss to 3rd digit, weakness to elbow and wrist extension, loss of triceps DTR

Answer 13

C7

Question 14

Which nerve has radiculopathy? Pain to scapula or medial forearm, loss of sensation to 4th and 5th digit, weakness of finger abduction

Answer 14

C8

Question 15

Which nerve has radiculopathy? Pain in anterior lateral thigh, knee, medial calf, sensation loss to medial calf, weakness to hip flexion or knee extension, loss of patella DTR

Answer 15

L4

Question 16

Which nerve has radiculopathy? Pain in dorsal thigh and lateral calf, sensory loss to lateral calf and foot dorsum, weak hamstrings, dorsiflexion, inversion and eversion

Answer 16

L5

Question 17

Which nerve has radiculopathy? Posterior thigh and calf pain, loss of sensation to posterior lateral calf and lateral foot, weak hamstrings, plantarflexion, loss of achilles DTR

Answer 17

S1

Question 18

Dermatome for thumb and index finger

Answer 18

C6

Question 19

Dermatome for middle finger

Answer 19

C7

Question 20

Dermatome for 4th and 5th finger

Answer 20

C8

Question 21

Dermatome for medial forearm

Answer 21

T1

Question 22

Dermatome for nipple line

Answer 22

T4

Question 23

Dermatome for umbilicus

Answer 23

T10

Question 24

Dermatome for inguinal

Answer 24

L1

Question 25

Dermatome for medial calf

Answer 25

L4

Question 26

Dermatome for lateral calf

Answer 26

L5

Question 27

Most common UE neuropathies

Answer 27

C6 or c7

Question 28

Most common LE radiculopathy

Answer 28

L5 and S1

Question 29

Routine nerve conduction studies are usually not adequate to diagnose a plexopathy: what else do we need??

Answer 29

Side to. Side comparisons

Question 30

Peripheral neuropathy pattern where a single nerve is affected and there is weakness only in specific mm

Answer 30

Mononeuropathy

Question 31

Peripheral neuropathy pattern with diffuse symmetrical disease involving motor sensory or both (stocking glove sensory loss) with distal weakness and hyporeflexia

Answer 31

Polyneuropathy

Question 32

Peripheral neuropathy pattern with focal involvement of two or more nerves

Answer 32

Mononeuropathy multiplex (seen in some systemic disease- DM, vasculitis)

Question 33

Pain upon gentle touch

Answer 33

Dysesthesia

Question 34

Lowered threshold to pain

Answer 34

Hyperalgesia

Question 35

Pain threshold is elevated but pain sensation is felt excessively

Answer 35

Hyperpathia

Question 36

Atrophy of mm indicates a neuropathy of the ___

Answer 36

PNS (lower motor neurons)

Question 37

The ring finger sensation is supplied by what two nerves

Answer 37

Median and ulnar

Question 38

Median nerve can be. Compressed at the ___ and causes pain numbness and paresthesias that spread downward from the wrist

Answer 38

Carpal tunnel

Question 39

This median nerve mononeuropathy leads to a diffuse dull ache in the proximal forarm and those mm have easy fatigue (no nocturnal awakening with this one)

Answer 39

Pronator syndrome (compresesion at the elbow)

Question 40

The OK sign is used to test for which mononeuropathy

Answer 40

Median- anterior interosseous syndrome

Question 41

The ulnar nerve can be compressed at the axilla, Elbow, cubital tunnel, or what structure in the wrist

Answer 41

Guyons canal