Foot Flashcards
What foot bone is susceptible to avascular necrosis?
Talus
What is the major portal of the foot?
Tarsal tunnel
What are the 3 major foot groups?
Medial plantar, lateral plantar, medial 2 dorsal interossei
What makes up medial compartment?
1LAFF (1 lumbrical abductor, flexor digitorum brevis, flexor hallicus brevis)
Tarsal tunnel acronym
Tom Dick and Very Nervous Harry
What does Tom Dick And Very Nervous Harry mean?
Tibialis posterior, flexor digitorum longus, posterior tibial artery, posterior tibial vein, tibial nerve, flexor hallicus longus
What is the first layer of the foot?
Abductor hallicus, flexor digitorum brevis, abductor digiti minimi
What covers the foot?
Plantar aponeurosis
What is the second layer of the foot?
Quadratus plantae, lumbricals
What innervates 1st lumbrical?
Medial plantar nerve
What is the third layer of the foot?
Flexor hallucis brevis, flexor digiti minimi brevis, adductor hallucis
What is the fourth layer of the foot?
Dorsal interossei and plantar interossei
What is the most common inherited muscular disorder?
Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease
What are the branches of anterior tibial artery?
Posterior tibial recurrent, anterior tibial recurrent, muscular branches, anterior medial malleolar, anterior lateral malleolar, dorsalis pedis
Where can you take pulse?
Dorsalis pedis
What nerve is impacted in tarsal tunnel syndrome?
Tibial
What is innervated by medial plantar nerve?
1LAFF
What is the anterior compartment innervated by?
Deep fibular nerve
What innervates the lateral compartment/skin of foot?
Superficial fibular nerve
What innervates the toe crack?
Deep fibular nerve
What is cutaneous innervation to medial side of foot?
Saphenous (L4)
What is the cutaneous innervation to lateral side of foot?
Sural nerve (S1)
What is the cutaneous innervation of heel?
Tibial nerve
What is the cutaneous innervation to dorsal aspect of web between toes 1-2
Deep fibular nerve
