Module 10- Foot and Ankle Flashcards
How many layers are there in the foot?
5
- 1-4 on plantar aspect
- dorsal layer
What are the muscles in the first layer of the foot?
- flexor digitorum brevis
- abductor hallucis
- abductor digiti minimi
What are the actions of the 1st layer of the foot?
- flex digits PIP joint, abduct 1st and 5th digits
What nerves innervate the 1st layer of the foot?
lateral and medial plantar nerves
What are the muscles of the 2nd layer of the foot?
- quadratus plantae
- lumbricals (4)
(attached to FDL tendons)
What are the actions of the 2nd layer of the foot?
assist FDL tendons, flex MP and extend IP joints
What nerves innervate the 2nd layer of the foot?
lateral and medial plantar nerves
What are the muscles of the 3rd layer of the foot?
- adductor hallucis (oblique and transverse head)
- flexor hallucis brevis
- flexor digiti minimi brevis
What is unique about flexor hallucis brevis?
has tiny sesamoid bones
What are the nerves that innervate the 3rd layer of the foot?
lateral and medial plantar nerves
What are the muscles of the 4th layer of the foot?
- plantar interossei (3)
- dorsal interossei (4)
What is the axis of add/abduction in the toes?
- digit 2
What nerve innervates the 4th layer of the foot?
lateral plantar nerve
What are the muscles of the dorsal aspect of the foot?
- extensor hallucis brevis
- extensor digitorum brevis
What nerve innervates the muscles of the dorsal aspect of the foot?
deep fibular nerve
What arteries supply blood to the plantar aspect of the foot?
popliteal > posterior tibial:
- medial plantar
- lateral plantar
What structure branches from the lateral plantar artery?
deep plantar arch
- anastomosis with medial plantar artery
- plantar metatarsals > common plantar > proper plantar
What artery supplies blood to the dorsal aspect of the foot?
dorsalis pedis artery
- lateral to EHL tendon
- arcuate artery branches off
- dorsal metatarsals > dorsal digitals
What is the relative position of the tendons that pass posterior to the medial malleolus?
tibialis posterior > flexor digitorum > flexor hallucis longus
Tom Dick and Very Nervous Harry
What are the nerves that innervate the foot and ankle?
off of tibial
- medial and lateral plantar nerves
- deep fibular nerve
Which digits are innervated by the common and proper plantar digital branches of the medial plantar nerve?
1st - 3rd digits
Which digits are innervated by the common and proper plantar digital branches of the lateral plantar nerve?
4th and 5th
What are the branches of the lateral plantar nerve?
- deep and superficial
What are important dermatomes of the foot?
- 1st toe = L4
- dorsum and plantar aspect = L5
- 5th toe = S1
What is the location would you take the medial malleolar pulse?
- just posterior to medial malleolus
- instruct patient to flex great toe to find FHL and just anterior to that you can find pulse
What is the location would you take the dorsal pedis pulse?
- look for EHL
- ext great toe
- just lateral to EHL
- where talus and navicular bone articulate