LE Peripheral Nerves Flashcards
You suspect your patient has carpal tunnel syndrome, if you are correct, which thumb muscle would test at 5/5?
A. Adductor pollicis
B. Opponens Pollicis
C. Flexor digitorum superficialis
D. Flexor pollicus brevis
E. Flexor digitorum profundus
A. Adductor pollicis
What test is used to test for the PRESENCE of an anterior dislocation of the shoulder?
Dugas
What muscle(s) is/are used to evaluate an L4 MRS?
Tibialis anterior and quadriceps
What muscle(s) is/are used to evaluate an L5 MRS?
Extensor hallicus longus and brevis
Extensor digitorum
ABductors
What muscle(s) is/are used to evaluate an S1 MRS?
Peroneus longus and brevis
Gastrocnemius
Soleus
Gluteus maximus
What type of pain is usually described as cramping, spasm, or aching?
A. Neurologic
B. Dermatogenous
C. Sclerotogenous
D. Myotogenous
E. Vascular
D. Myotogenous
What is neurologic pain?
Pain coming from or along nerves described as sharp, radiating, numbness, shooting, or shock-like pain
What is dermatogenous pain?
Neural pain following dermatomes
What is sclerotogenous pain?
Referred pain that occurs when there is a sensory irritation to a structure that shared embryological mesodermal innervation described as shooting, radiating, and causalgia
What is myotogenous pain?
Pain originating from within muscle such as with trigger point referral described as cramping, spasm, or aching
What is causalgia?
Burning pain
What is vascular pain?
Pain that is throbbing or pulsating and worsened with activity
What are the peripheral nerves of the lower extremity?
Femoral
Obturator
Superficial peroneal
Deep peroneal
Tibial
Superior gluteal nerve
Inferior gluteal nerve
Common peroneal
What are the spinal levels of the femoral nerve?
L2-L4
What are the spinal levels of the obturator nerve?
L2-L4
What are the spinal levels of the sciatic nerve?
L4-S3
Where is the pure patch for the femoral nerve?
Anterior thigh
Where is the pure patch for the obturator nerve?
Vastus medialis medially just above the knee
Where is the pure patch for the superficial peroneal nerve?
Lateral aspect of the lower leg
Where is the pure patch for the deep peroneal nerve?
Web between the 1st and 2nd metatarsals
Where is the pure patch for the tibial nerve?
Heel of the foot
A dorsiflexion and eversion ankle sprain can cause damage to what nerve?
Common peroneal nerve
What are the branches of the common fibular nerve?
Superficial fibular nerve and deep fibular nerve
Where is the pure patch for the common peroneal nerve?
Head of the fibula
What is the muscle and reflex test for the common peroneal nerve?
NONE
What nerve wraps around the head of the fibula?
Common peroneal nerve
What muscle is the most commonly used and the smallest muscle tested first for a femoral nerve MRS?
Sartorius
What muscles are tested for a femoral nerve MRS?
Sartorius
Quadriceps
Iliopsoas
What is the longest muscle in the body?
Sartorius
How is a muscle test for the sartorius performed for a femoral nerve MRS?
Position patients leg in flexion, external rotation of the hip, and knee flexion.
Doctors inferior hand pulls as the superior hand pushes inferiorly to straighten out the leg