Musculoskeletal Flashcards
Nerve damage leads to claw hand
ulnar nerve
Nerve damage leads to ape hand
median nerve
Nerve damage leads to wrist drop
radial
Nerve damage leads to scapular winging
long thoracic
Nerve damage leads to unable to wipe bottom
thoracodorsal
Nerve damage leads to loss of forearm pronation
median
Nerve damage leads to cannot abduct or adduct fingers
ulnar
Nerve damage leads to loss of shoulder abduction
axillary
Nerve damage leads to weak external rotation of arm
suprascapular, axillary
Nerve damage leads to loss of elbow flexion and forearm supination
musculocutaneous
Nerve damage leads to loss of wrist extension
radial
Nerve damage leads to trouble initiating shoulder abduction
suprascapular nerve
Nerve damage leads to unable to abduct arm beyond 10 degrees
axillary
Nerve damage leads to unable to raise arm above horizontal
long thoracic, spinal access
Nerve damage from fracture of shaft of humerus
radial nerve
Nerve damage from fracture of surgical neck of humerus
axillary nerve
Nerve damage from supracondylar humerus fracture
median
Nerve damage from fracture of medial epicondyle
ulnar
Nerve damage from anterior shoulder dislocation
axillary
Nerve damage from injury to the carpal tunnel
median
class symptoms of carpal tunnel syndrome
hand numbness/ tingling, can wake up from sleep, can radiate up arm, wrist pain
Difference between monteggia and galeazzi?
monteggia: radial head dislocation, ulnar diaphyseal fracture
galeazzi: distal radial ulnar joint dislocation, radial head fx
complication from fall on outstretched arm, snuffbox tenderness
avascular necrosis
complication from anterior shoulder dislocation
axillary
complication from fracture of 5th metacarpal neck
tendon involvement
complication from humerus fracture
radial/axillary
complication from hip fracture
avascular necrosis
complication from femur fracture
fat embolus
complication from tibial fracture
compartment
complication from pelvic fracture
blood loss
how is compartment symndrome diagnosed?
compartment pressures > 30
Signs of compartment syndrome?
6 p’s
pain pallor poikilothermia pulselessness paresthesia paralysis
tx for compartment syndrome
emergency fasciotomy
Cause of low back pain where pain increases with passive SLR
degen disc dx
Cause of low back pain where pain lessens with flexion at the hips
spinal stenosis