Leg Innervation Short Cut

Question 1

What muscles does the femoral nerve innervate?

Answer 1

Anterior Compartment:
Vastus muscles
Sartorius
Rectus Femoris
Pectineus
Iliacus

Question 2

What muscles does the obturator nerve innervate?

Answer 2

Medial Compartment:
Pectineus
Gracilis
Adductor longus
Adductor magnus
Adductor brevis
Adductor minimus

Question 3

What muscles does the tibial nerve innervate?

Answer 3

Posterior Compartment:
Semitendinosus
Semimembranosus
Long head of biceps femoris

Question 4

What muscles does the common fibular nerve innervate?

Answer 4

Short head of biceps femoris

Question 5

What does the common fibular nerve branch into?

Answer 5

Superficial fibular nerve

Deep fibular nerve

Question 6

What does the obturator nerve split around and into what?

Answer 6

Adductor brevis into anterior and posterior obturator nerves

Question 7

What does the tibial nerve branch into?

Answer 7

Medial plantar nerve

Lateral plantar nerve

Question 8

Where does the sural nerve run?

Answer 8

Between the two heads of gastrocnemius running with the small saphenous vein

Question 9

What does the superficial fibular nerve innervate?

Answer 9

Fibularis longus

Fibularis brevis

Question 10

What does the deep fibular nerve innervate?

Answer 10

Anterior compartment of the leg

Dorsum of the foot: Extensor hallucis brevis and extensor digitorum brevis

Question 11

What does the tibial nerve innervate?

Answer 11

Short head of the biceps femoris

Posterior compartment of the leg

Question 12

Where does the anterior cruciate ligament connect?

Answer 12

Anterior surface of the tibial to the lateral posterior surface of the femur

Question 13

Where does the posterior cruciate ligament connect?

Answer 13

Posterior surface of the tibia to the anterior surface the medial anterior surface of the femur