FA Flashcards
Knee exams - tests?
- Anterior drawer sign
- Posterior drawer sign
- Abnormal passive abduction
- Abnormal passive adduction
- McMurray test
- Lachman sign
common knee conditions
- Unhappy triad
- Prepatellar bursitis
- Baker cyst
Baker cyst?
popliteal fluid collection in gastrocnemius-semimembranosus bursa commonly communicating with synovial space and related to chronic joint disease
prepateral bursitis is also called / definition / caused by
Housemaid’s Knee
inflammation of Knee’s largest sac of synovial fluid
caused by : 1. repeated trauma
2. pressure from extensive kneeling
Unhappy triad - problem?
classically consists of damage to
- anterior cruciate ligament
- Medial collateral ligament
- medial meniscus
rotator cuff muscles - muscles? / primary innervated by
- supraspinatus
- infraspinatus
- teres minor
- subscapularis
C5-C6
most common rotator cuff muscle injury (and explain)
supraspinatus muscle – trauma or degeneration and impingement –> tenindopathy or tera
supraspinatus muscle injury is assessed by
empty full/can test
overuse injuries of the elbow
- Medial epicondylitis (golfer’s elbow)
2. Lateral epicondylitis (tennis elbow)
causes of medial epicondylitis (golfer’s elbow)
- repetitive flexion (forehand shots)
2. idiopathic
causes of lateral epicondylitis (tennis elbow)
- repetitive extension (backhand shots)
2. idiopathic
dislocation of lunate may cause
acute carpal tunnel syndrome
a fall on an outstretched hand that damages the hook of the hamate can cause
ulnar nerve injury
Carpal tunnel syndrome is associated with
- pregnancy 2. RA 3. hypothyroidism 4. repetitive use
- dislocation of lunate (acute Carpal tunnel syndrome)
- diabetes 7. dialysis related amyloidosis
Guyon canal syndrome? / seen in
Compression of ulnar nerve at wrist or hand
- seen in cyclists due to pressure from handlebars
upper extremity nerves
- axillary (C5-C6)
- Musculocutaneous (C5-C7)
- Radial (C5-T1)
- Median (C5-T1)
- Ulnar (C8-T1)
- Reccurent branch of median nerve (C5-T1)
causes of axillary nerve injury
- fractured surgical neck of humerus
2. anterior dislocation of humerus
presentation of axillary nerve injury
- flatened deltoid
- Loss of arm abduction at shoulder (>15 degrees)
- Loss of sensation over deltoid muscle and lateral arm
causes of musculocutaneous nerve injury
upper trunk compression
presentation musculocutaneous nerve injury
- loss of forearm flexion and supination
2. loss of sensation on lateral forearm
causes of radial nerve injury
- midshaft fracture of humerus
2. compression of axilla
causes of radial nerve injury - compression of axilla due to (e.g.)
- crutches
2. sleeping with arm over chair (Saturday night palsy)
presentation of radial nerve injury
- wrist drop
- decreased grip strength
- loss of sensation of over posterior arm/forearm and dorsal hand
causes of median nerve injury
- supracondylar fracture of humerus (proximal lesion)
- carpal tunnel syndrome (distal lesion)
- wrist laceration (distal lesion)
median injury - presentation
- ape hand 2. Pope’s blessing 3. loss of wrist flexion
- loss of thumb opposition 5. loss of lumbricals of 2nd and 3rd digits 6. loss of flexion of lateral fingers
- loss of sensation over thenar eminence
- loss of sensation at dorsal and palmar aspects of lateral 3.5 fingers (proximal lesion)
- Tinel sign (in carpal tunnel syndrome)
sensation on in proximal lesions
ape-hand deformity
Lack of ability to abduct, flex and oppose the thumb due to paralysis of the thenar muscles
pope’s blessing sign (Hand of benediction)
The ability to flex the digits 2–3 at the metacarpophalangeal joints is lost as is the ability to flex and extend the proximal and distal interphalangeal joints
causes of ulnar nerve injury
- fracture of medial epicondyle of humerus funny bone (proximal lesion)
- fractured hook of hamate (distal lesion)
presentation of ulnar nerve injury
- ulnar claw on digit extension 2. radial deviation of wrist UPON FLEXION (proximal lesion) 3. Loss of wrist flexion 4. loss of flexion of medial fingers 5. loss of abduction and adduction of fingers (interossei)
- loss of actin of medial 2 lumbrical muscles
- loss of sensation over medial 1.5 fingers including hypothenar eminence
presentation of Reccurent branch of median nerve injury
- ape hand (loss of thenar muscle group: opposition, flexion, abduction
- no loss of sensation
ape hand - nerve ?
- median
2. reccurent branch of median nerve
loss of foreman supination - nerve?
musculocutaneous
radial nerve injury - nerve of sensation?
loss of sensation over posterior arm/forearm and dorsal hand
median nerve injury - sensation
loss of sensation over thenar eminencea and at dorsal and palmar aspects of lateral 3.5 fingers
Erb palsy (waiter’s tip) - injury
traction or tear of upper trunk
causes of Erb palsy (waiter’s tip)
infants - lateral traction of neck during delivery
adults - trauma
causes of Erb palsy - muscle deficit
- deltoid
- suraspinatus
- infraspinatus
- Bicepts branchi
causes of Erb palsy - functional deficit presentation (and muscle responsible)
- abduction (arms hangs by side) (deltoid, supraspinatus)
- Lateral rotation (arm medially rotated) (infraspinatus)
- flexion and sunipation (arm extended and pronated) (bicepts branchi)
Klumpke palsy (Claw hand) - injury
traction or tear of lower trunk
causes of Klumpke palsy (Claw hand)
infants - upward force on arm during delivery
adults - trauma (grabbing a tree branch to break a fall)
Klumpke palsy (Claw hand) - muscle deficits
intrinsic hand muscles
- lumbricals
- interossei
- thenar
- hypothenar
Klumpke palsy (Claw hand) - presentation
total claw hand
normal action of hand lumbricals
flex MCP and extend DIP and PIP joints
muslce deficit of Klumpke palsy are the same as the …. s
thoracic outlet syndrome
causes of thoracic outlet syndrome
- Cervical rib
2. Pancoast tumor
thoracic outlet syndrome - presentation
- atrophy of intrinsic hand muscles
- ischemia, pain and edema (due to vascular
Winged scapula - injury
lesion of long thoracic nerve
causes of Winged scapula
- axillary node dissection after mastectomy
2. stab wound