Elbow Flashcards
Patients with what usually have a history of neck pain? No history?
Radiculopathy
Neuropathy
Leaning away may help those with?
Radiculopathy
What is worse with valsalva
Radiculopathy
May have pain/sensory/motor findings
Neuropathy
Tests for radiculopathy/findings
Weakness in muscles supplied by same spinal NR. Ex: c6: biceps, brachioradialis, wrist extensors
Tests for NR involvement: foraminal compression, Jackson compression etc.
Neck pain and radiating arm pain
Radiculopathy
No neck pain or radiation arm pain. Rather pain present in forearm or hand
Neuropathy
Sensory deficits in one peripheral nerve
Neuropathy
Tests/findings for neuropathy
Sensory deficit in peripheral nerve distribution
Orthos for peripheral nerve involvement: tinels, phalens
NR in median N
C5-T1
Main trunk passes through 2 heads of pronator teres
Median N
Anterior interosseous nerve branches from where and has what supply
Median
NO SENSORY
Flexor digitorum profundus
Flexor pollicis longus
Pronator quadratus
Sensory to palmar surfaces of thumb, index, middle finger, and radial half of ring finger
Dorsal: middle and distal phalanges of index, middle and lateral half of ring
Median nerve distribution
Pronator teres syndrome
Anterior interosseous nerve entrapped between heads to pronator teres
May affect main trunk and or anterior interosseous (no sensory issues if not ant. Inter.
S/s of pronator teres syndrome
Pain in proximal forearm
- tenderness of pronator muscles
- hard to flex distal thumb and index
- if main trunk affected have sensory loss over median nerve distribution
Ligament of struthers may cause entrapment of what nerve
Median
Hand signs seen with median nerve entrapment
Ape hand
Simian hand
Monkey paw
TheNar atrophy and thumb resting in adduction
Thenar atrophy with thumb resting in adduction . Sign and nerve?
Ape hand/simian hand/monkey paw
Median nerve
NR with ulnar nerve
C7-T1
Ulnar nerve Passes through _____ and into upper arm. Then descends in posterior compartment of arm and enters ______ groove. Runs between humeral and ulnar heads of ___ _____ ____ muscle and descends along ulnar aspect of forearm to ___ and ____
Axilla
Retroepicondylar (ulnar)
Flexor carpi ulnaris
Wrist and hand
Ulnar nerve entrapment aka
Cubital tunnel syndrome
Cubital tunnel is small and smaller with what action
Elbow flexion
Repetitive elbow flexion may cause entrapment of what nerve
Ulnar
S/s of ulnar nerve entrapment/cubital tunnel syndrome
Intermittent numbness/tingling in ulnar distribution
Weakness of grasp/pinch and loss of dexterity
- weakness of adductor pollicis
- loss of control of small finger-wartenbergs sign
- claw deformity
- benediction hand