MSK - Brachial Plexus Especially Flashcards
Upper Trunk
C5 C6
Middle Trunk
C7
Lower Trunk
C8, T1
Anterior Division
C5, C7, T1
Posterior Division
C6, C7, C8
Lateral Cord
musculocutaneous nerve
lateral root of median nerve
medial cord
medial root of medial nerve
ulnar nerve
posterior cord
axillary nerve
radial nerve
musculocutaneous nerve
C5,6,7
flexors
median nerve
flexors
C6,7,C8,T1
ulnar nerve
C8, T1
skin and forearm of hand
axillary nerve
C5,6
deltoid, teres minor
extensors
radial nerve
C5-8, T1
triceps
extensors
deltoid
arm abduction
axillary nerve
wrist drop
radial nerve
Erb Duchenne palsy/waiter’s tip
upper trunk (C5,6) infants during delivery pronated forearm
Klumpke’s palsy
inferior trunk (C8,T1) atrophy of thenar and hypothenar muscles
ulnar claw
can’t extend 4th and 5th digits
median claw
can’t extend 2nd and 3rd digits
cutaneous innervation - palmar side
ulnar, median
very small amount of radial
cutaneous innervation - dorsal side
radial (thumb and and lower 2nd and 3rd fingers)
median - upper 2nd and third fingers
ulnar - the rest
cremaster muscle
part of internal oblique
pulls in testes when cold
tennis elbow muscle
extensor carpi radialis brevis
medially rotate arm
subscapularis
recurrent laryngeal nerve is branch of
vagus
muscles that vagus innervates
palatoglossus
palatoglossus innervation
vagus
spiral fracture
child abuse
most commonly injured muscle of rotator cuff
supraspinatus
rotator cuff
supraspinatus
infraspinatus
teres minor
subscapularis
opponens pollicis
innervated by median nerve
laterally rotate arm
infraspinatus
dORSAL INTEROSSEOUS MUSCLES
ABDUCT
palmar interosseous muscles
adduct