L18 - Lower Limb Nerve Injuries

Question 1

cauda equina vs conus lesions

difference? label diagram

what are the landmarks for lumbar punctures

how else do they differ injury briefly

Question 2

cauda equina vs conus medullaris injuries differences

pain severity?
pain location?
sensory disturbance?
motor loss?
reflexes?
bowel / bladder
sexual function?

Question 3

cauda equina vs conus lesions

causes of injuries
give examples

Question 4

nerve root entrapment - what is this aka

what is it cause by, examples list

what nerve roots are commonly impinged and where do they exist

where may the pain be felt and how does this present

Question 5

lower limb dermatomes

imagine and label what does each supply

what nerve roots cause knee jerk and ankle jerk

Question 6

lower limb
weakness

what nerve roots cause weakness in different places

Question 7

label the lumbar and sacral plexus

Question 8

label the lumbar and sacral plexus

find
lateral cutaneous
femoral
posterior femoral
obturator
sciatic
genitofemoral
pudendal
illioinguinal
illiohypogastric
inferior and superior gluteal

Question 9

what causes lumbosacral plexus lesions

Question 10

femoral nerve organisation

what is affected if the damage is proximal

what happens if it is below iguinal ligamnet

what would a distal lesion cause

Question 11

what happens if you damage femoral nerve?

lateral cut nerve?

what symptoms occur as a result of these damage

how can femoral nerve be damaged

Question 12

sciatica

what is it what does it cause

differential diagnosis?

what are the causes?

Question 13

piriformis syndrome

what is it what does it cause

Question 14

sciatic nerve injury

what does it cause

what can cause this

what can a partial sciatic nerve damage like look like

Question 15

what are the major divisions of the sciatic nerve, label them

Question 16

sciatic nerve divisions

find saphenous n
common peroneal
superficial peroneal n
common peroneal n
sural cutaneous nerve
sciatic nerve
medial and lateral plantar nerve
deep peroneal n.
tibial nerve

Question 17

tibial nerve
where is it
what does damge to it cause
—symptoms? differential?

what causes it in the first place

what does this nerve give branches to and where

Question 18

sural nerve
what type is it

common peroneal nerve
what can it be damahed by
what does damage cause

Question 19

neurogenic foot drop

what is it caused by and where does this occur, what nerves

Question 20

polyneuropathy

what is it

what does peripheral neurpathy refer to and what does this include
—-give examples of different types

Question 21

length dependant polyneuropathy

what are common causes. what are clinical symptoms

Question 22

non length dependant polyneuropathy

what causes it, how does this happen and what are the main types

Question 23

Guillain Barre Syndrome

what is it
whend does it happen
how does it progress
other features?

Question 24

neuronopathy

what is it

what are the type of it — site of damage and causes

Question 25

polyradioculopathy

what is this
what is it caused by?? give examples

Question 26

compartments of the leg?

shin splints
what causes it and why
what parts of the leg are commonly affected
when does pain happpen? management?

Question 27

compartment syndrome

what causes it and why
why is it important

where does this occur? more common where

Question 28

compartment syndrome

what causes it, give examples

Question 29

consequence of CS

• physiology
  what happens and why
• pathology
  what happens if untreated

Question 30

acute anterior CS of leg

what happens as a result

Question 31

acute anterior CS of leg

affects:

dorsiflexion muscles of ankle and foot
—what muscles

anterior tibial artery
—when is it commonly injured

deep perineal nerve
—what does this give sensation to

Question 32

acute posterior CS leg

superficial posterior

• –what does it effect here exactly
• –muscles? nerves?

Answer 32

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Question 33

what are the signs of CS?

investigations of CS?

Question 34

how do you manage acute CS

what are the complications of mismanagement