Exam 3 Flashcards
What does the Brachial plexus supply?
What is it formed by?
May also receive fibers from?
Travels over ___ into the axilla
Upper extermities
anterior primary rami of C5 through T1
C4 or T2
Rib 1
Describe the BP medial to lateral
Roots Trunks Divisions Cords Branches
Each BP root receives a _____ from sympathetic trunk
Passes between ___ and ___ scalene to the _____ triangle
Posterior and superior to the _____ artery
Gray ramus communicans
Anterior and Middle. Posterior
Sublcalvian
Which roots form the superior trunk?
Middle?
Inferior?
C5 and C6
C7
C8 and T1
Which trunks form the Lateral cord?
Medial cord?
Posterior cord?
(divisions)
Superior and Middle (anterior)
Inferior trunk (anterior)
Superior, Middle, Inferior (posteriror)
Cords are named for their location relative to what?
Axillary artery
Draw out BP
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What muscles does the Dorsal scapular nerve supply?
What roots make it up?
Levator Scapula
Rhomboid Major
Rhomboid Minor
C5
What two muscles are supplied by the Suprascapular nerve?
What roots make it up?
Supraspinatus
Infraspinatus
C5 and C6
What does N2S supply?
Roots?
Subclavius
C5 and 6
What does the lateral pectoral nerve supply?
Roots?
Pectoralis Major
C5 C6 and C7
What roots make up Musculocutaneous nerve?
Muscles innervated ?
Continues into forearm as?
C5 C6 C7
Coracobrachialis
Biceps
Brachialis
Lateral cutaneous nerve of the forearm
Medial pectoral nerve roots?
Muscles?
C8 and T1
Pec major and Minor
Medial cutaneous nerve of he arm roots?
Supplies ?
Receives fibers from Where through a communication with what?
C8 and T1
Skin on medial arm between axilla and elbow
T2, Intercostobrachial nerve
Medial cutaneous nerve of Forearm roots?
Supply?
C8 and T1
Skin over anterior and medial forearm, skin over biceps
Ulnar nerve roots ?
Gives off how many branches in the arm?
Innervates what Forearm muscles?
C8, T1, sometimes C7
None
Flexor carpi ulnaris, medial half of flexor digitorum profundus
What are the two sensory branches in the forearm of the Ulnar nerve?
Dorsal branch of the ulnar nerve
Palmar branch of ulnar nerve
Supply skin
When the ulnar nerve travels deep to flexor carpi ulnaris and superficial to flexor retinaculum what two branches does it divide into?
What do they supply?
Superfical branch - palmar aspect of the little finger, medial half of ring finger
Deep branch - Abductor digit minimi, flexor digit minimi brevis, opponens digiti minimi, adductor pollicis, deep head of flexor pollicis brevis, ALL interossei, lumbricals 3 and 4
Ulnar nerve Clinical considerations
CLAW hand
Median nerve roots?
Gives oof how many branches in arm?
Innervates which muscles in forearm?
C6, C7, C8 and T1
None
Pronator teres, flexor carpi radialis, palmaris longus, flexor digitroum superficailias, and pronator quadratus (by way of anterior interosseous nerve of forearm
Where is the palmar branch of the median branch given off?
What does it supply?
Distal third of forearm
Skin of thenar eminence, lateral wrist, and palm
After median nerve passing through the carpal tunnel, how many common palmar digital nerves are there?
Which lumbrucials do they supply?
What three muscles does the first common palmar digital nerve supply?
Three
First two
Abductor pollicus longus
Flexor pollicus brevis
Opponents pollicus
Each common palmar digital nerve breaks off into what?
Supply?
Two proper palmar digital nerves
Sensory only to lateral 3.5 digits
Three clinical considerations with the median nerve
Carpal Tunnel
Hand of oath/benidicition
Unable to pronate
What other things can also be supplied by the median nerve?
Periosteum
Elbow, Radiocarpal, and mid carpal joints
Can communicate with ulnar nerve in wrist
Draw Brachioplexus
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Superior subscapular nerve comes off of which cord?
Roots?
Supplies?
Posterior
5 and 6
Subscapularis
Thoracodorsal nerve cord?
Rootlets?
Supplies?
Posterior
C6 7 and 8
Latissimus dorsi
Inferior subsucapular nerve cord
roots
supply
posterior
5 and 6
Subscapularis and teres major
Axillary nerve cord
Rootlets
Supplies
Which other branch is given off at same level?
Posterior
5 and 6
Deltoid and teres minor
Superior lateral cutaneous nerve of the arm given off same level as branch to teres minor
Radial nerve cord
Roots
Supply
Posterior
C5, 6 7 8 and T1
All muscles in posterior compartment of arm and forearm
What nerve spirals around to posterior of humerus from the medial bicipital sulcus?
It also passes into the forearm on anterior side of elbow after traveling between brachial is and brachioradialsis
Radial nerve
Which nerve travels posteriorly around the surgical neck of the humerus?
Axillary nerve
What does the radial nerve divide into at the level of the radial head? What do they supply?
Which branch follows the brachioradialis to the distal third of forearm where it travels between the muscle and the radius to the posterior surface of the hand?
Which penetrates the supinator muscle, gives off a series of branches to posterior forearm and terminates as posterior interosseous nerve
Superfical and Deep branches
Superfical branch
Deep Branch
Which branch of radial nerve branches off in the upper arm and supplies the skin on the posterior side of upper arm?
Which branches off the radius in the middle arm?
Given off in upper arm supplies narrow area of skin on lateral side of posterior forearm
Posterior cutaneous nerve of the arm
Inferior lateral cutaneous nerve of the arm
Posterior cutaneous nerve of forearm
What will muscular branches of the radial nerve given off in the arm supply?
All three heads of triceps
Anconeus by way of branch to the medial head
Branches of the radial nerve that give off at the level of the lateral epicondyle supply what?
Brachioradialis
Extensor carpi radialis longus
What does the superficial branch of the radial nerve turn into when it reaches the hand?
Sensory info to?
Superficial branch also gives off the?
Dorsal digital nerves
Radial side of posterior hand
Extensor side of thumb
Extensor side of proximal phalanges 2 and 4
Lateral half of extensor side of ring finger
Communicicating branch with the ulnar nerve
Deep branch of the radial nerve gives off branches to which forearm muscles?
Extensor carpi radialis brevis
Supinator
Extensor digitorum
Extensor digiti minimi
Extensor carpi ulnaris
Abductor pollicus longus
Extensor pollicis brevis
What is the terminal branch of the deep branch of radial nerve?
Supplies?
Posterior interosseous nerve
Extensor pollicis longus
Extensor indicis
Which nerve sends articular branches to the shoulder and wrist joints?
Radial nerve
Clinical considerations for the radial nerve
Wrist drop
Triceps and brachioradialis reflex differences R/L
Which brachial plexus injury is a supraclavicular one?
Infraclavicular?
Erb-Duchenne (waiters tip)
Klumpke (Claw hand when try to extend fingers)