FOOT

Question 1

All sole muscles innervated by lateral plantar nerve EXCEPT

Answer 1

Abductor hallucis
Flexor digitorum brevis
Flexor hallucis brevis
1st lumbrical

Question 2

Blood vessels: COMMON ILIAC

Answer 2

Internal iliac

External iliac (femoral, popliteal, anterior/posterior tibial, plantar arch)

Question 3

Blood vessels: DORSALIS PEDIS ARTERY (dorsalis pedis pulse)

Answer 3

LATERALLY: tendons of extensor digitorum longus

MEDIALLY: tendon of extensor hallucis longus

LANDMARK: between malleoli or 1st intermetatarsal space

Question 4

Vena Commitantes

Answer 4

Ant/Post tibial

Popliteal

Femoral

External iliac

Internal iliac

Common iliac

Question 5

Muscles of the sole

Answer 5

FIRST LAYER:
Abductor hallucis
Flexor digitorum brevis
Abductor digiti minimi

SECOND LAYER:
Flexor digitorum accessorius
Flexor digitorum longus
Lumbricals (4)
Flexor hallucis longus 

THIRD LAYER:
Flexor hallucis brevis
Adductor hallucis (oblique head, transverse head)
Flexor digiti minimi brevis

FOURTH LAYER:
Interossei: dorsal (4), plantar (3)
Peroneus longus
Tibialis posterior

Question 6

Drains into FEMORAL

Answer 6

GREAT SAPHENOUS VEIN

Question 7

Drains into POPLITEAL

Answer 7

SMALL SAPHENOUS VEIN

Question 8

Branch of COMMON PERONEAL NERVE

Answer 8

Lateral cutaneous nerve

Superficial cutaneous nerve

Question 9

Branch of FEMORAL NERVE

Answer 9

SAPHENOUS NERVE

Question 10

PERONEUS vs TIBIALIS MUSCLE

Answer 10

PERONEUS muscles: evert foot and plantar flex

TIBIALIS muscles: invert foot and plantar flex

Question 11

The nerve common injured in “foot drop”

Answer 11

COMMON PERONEAL NERVE

Question 12

In patients with TIBIAL NERVE LESIONS in the gluteal region (hip fracture, dislocation of femur), weakness may be evident in the ability to flex the leg at the knee and plantarflex at the angle

CAN’T STAND ON TIPTOES

Paresthesia on skin of posterior leg, sole and lateral foot

Answer 12

TIBIAL NERVE LESIONS

Question 13

Most frequently injured nerve in the lower limb

Compression at neck of fibula, hip fracture, dislocation of femur

FOOTDROP

“STEPPAGE” gait

Pain and paresthesia in the lateral leg and dorsum of the foot

Answer 13

COMMON PERONEAL/ FIBULAR NERVE LESIONS

Question 14

Which results from a loss of dorsiflexion at the ankle and loss if eversion

Answer 14

FOOTDROP

Question 15

Raise the affected leg high off the ground and the foot slaps the ground when walking

Answer 15

“STEPPAGE” gait

Question 16

May be injured as the nerve emerges from the lateral compartment of the leg

Pain and paresthesia in the dorsal aspect of the foot

Weakness in EVERSION of foot

Answer 16

SUPERFICIAL PERONEAL/ FIBULAR NERVE LESIONS

Question 17

May be compresses in the anterior compartment of the leg

May have footdrop and paresthesia in skin of the webbed space between the great toe and the second toe

Answer 17

DEEP PERONEAL/ FIBULAR NERVE LESIONS