Lecture 13: Lower Extremity part 2 Flashcards
MSK of LE
1) What 2 muscle groups does the anterior thigh compartment supply?
2) What nerve and artery supply here?
1) Flexors of the hip and extensors of the knee
2) Femoral nerve and femoral a. branches
1) What group does the medial thigh compartment supply?
2) What nerve and artery supply here? What is the exception?
1) Adductor group (adduct hip)
2) Obturator nerve and artery
-exception is hamstring portion of adductor magnus (innervated by tibial nerve)
What 2 things from the anterior thigh act across the hip and knee joint?
(impnt)
1) Sartorius (tailor’s muscle)
2) Rectus femorus
1) What anterior thigh muscle is the chief flexor of hip joint?
2) What innervates each part?
1) Iliopsoas
2) Psoas major: L1-2-3
Iliacus: femoral n.
-What group of anterior thigh muscles is an extensor of the knee joint?
-What 4 muscles are a part of this group? Which has 2 specific jobs you need to know?
Quadriceps femoris
1) Rectus femoris: flex hip and extend knee
2) Vastus lateralis
3) Vastus medialis
4) Vastus intermedius
1) Where is the quadriceps tendon?
2) What innervates the quadriceps and the anterior compartment? What supplies blood to the anterior compartment?
3) What two anterior muscles act across the hip and knee joint?
1) Anterior at patella
2) Femoral nerve, femoral artery
3) Sartorius and rectus femoris
1) Where does the articularis genu muscle come from?
2) What does it do? Why?
1) Vastus Intermedius m.
2) Pulls synovium superiorly during knee extension; to avoid pinching between patella and femur (PFPS)
What bursa can be found at the anterior thigh? What is this continuous with?
Suprapatellar bursa; joint space
1) What group of muscles are in the medial thigh compartment? What do they do?
2) What nerve innervates here? What is the exception?
3) What 2 actions does this compartment contribute (when walking/running)?
1) “Adductor group”; ADDuct hip joint/stabilize
2) Obturator n.; except for hamstring part of adductor magnus (innervated by the tibial br. of sciatic n.)
3) Flexing extended hip + extending flexed hip
List 5 super medial thigh muscles
(not super important to know all of)
Adductor longus
Adductor brevis
Adductor magnus
Gracilis
Obturator externus
How do the two parts of the adductor magnus differ?
What are these 2 parts? What nerve innervates each? What does each do?
Differ in their attachments, nerve supply and action
1) Adductor part: obturator nerve; flexes hip
2) Hamstring part: tibial br of sciatic nerve; extends hip
1) What is the only adductor group to cross and act on BOTH hip (adducts) and knee joints (flexes and rotates medially)?
2) The 3 SGT tendons insert where?
1) Gracilis
2) Pes Anserine
What does the obturator muscle do? (2 things)
Laterally rotates hip, pulls femoral head into acetabulum
1) What is the retro-inguinal space deep to?
2) What divides this space?
3) What lies laterally outside the femoral sheath?
1) Deep to inguinal ligament
2) Divided by psoas fascia
3) Femoral nerve
1) What are the 3 compartments of the femoral sheath?
2) What canal does it contain? What does this canal contain?
1) Lateral (femoral a.), intermediate (femoral v.), and medial (femoral canal) compartments
2) Femoral canal; lymphatics, LN, fat, etc
1) Where is the femoral triangle?
2) What does it contain?
3) What does the pulse here locate?
1) Inferior to inguinal ligament
2) Femoral nerve, artery, vein, & (NAV) (lateral to medial)
3) The artery
What are the boundaries of the femoral triangle? Describe these 2 locations
1) Base: inguinal ligament
2) Apex: deep to medial margin sartorius crossing deep to lateral margin adductor longus at the proximal adductor canal
The femoral triangle courses through the __________ hiatus
adductor
1) The adductor canal is an intramuscular passage for what artery, vein, and nerves?
2) What is located at the proximal end of the adductor canal?
1) Femoral artery & vein, saphenous nerve, & nerve to vastus medialis
2) Apex of femoral triangle
What is located at the distal end of the adductor canal? What does this allow for?
Adductor hiatus; passage of AV posteriorly to popliteal fossa
1) What are access for right and left heart catheterizations?
2) What are now often used instead?
1) Femoral vessels
2) UE vessels
1) What is percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) (aka coronary angioplasty)?
2) What does it require? Define this procedure
1) A nonsurgical procedure that improves blood flow to yourheart.
2) Cardiac catheterization: the insertion of a catheter tube and injection of contrast dye, usually iodine-based, into your coronary arteries.
1) What pathology can occur at the femoral canal?
2) Who is it more common in?
3) What complication can this condition have?
1) Femoral canal hernia
2) Females
3) May strangulate
What spinal nerves does the femoral nerve come from?
L 2-3-4
1) What does the femoral nerve provide motor innervation to? What actions does this allow?
2) What does it provide cutaneous sensory innervation?
1) Anterior compartment of thigh; flex hip, extend knee
2) From anterior cutaneous nerve of the thigh and saphenous nerve to medial leg and foot.
1) What does the patella tendon reflex (somatic spinal cord reflex) test?
2) What does it result in?
1) Integrity of femoral nerve (L2-3-4 spinal cord segments)
2) Quadricep’s contraction and extension of the knee