nerves of the lower extremity

Question 1

What muscles does the femoral nerve innervate?

Answer 1

quads and friends

Question 2

What muscles does the obturator innervate?

Answer 2

adductors

Question 3

What muscles does the common peroneal and gluteal nerves innervate?

Answer 3

gluts

short head of the biceps femurs

Question 4

what muscles does the tiial nerve and nerves to lateral rotators innervate?

Answer 4

Lateral rotators, most hamstrings

Question 5

What is the sensory innervation of the anterior thigh?

Answer 5

Iliohypogastric N
illioinguinal nerve
Genitofemoral nerve
Anterior femoral cutaneous branches of femoral nerve

Question 6

What is the sensory innervation to the medial thigh?

Answer 6

cutaneous branch of obturator nerve

Question 7

What is the sensory innervation of the lateral thigh?

Answer 7

lateral femoral cutaneous nerve

Question 8

what is the sensory innervation of the posterior thigh?

Answer 8

posterior femoral cutaneous nerve

Question 9

What is the distribution of femoral nerve?

Answer 9

anterior cutaneous branches, and numerous muscular branches to sartorius and quadriceps, especially nerve to vastus medialis

Question 10

What does the femoral nerve continue as?

Answer 10

saphenous nerve to distal thigh and leg

Question 11

What is the distribution of the obturator nerve posterior branches?

Answer 11

descends behind add. brevis, on anterior surface of add. magnus.
Supplies obt. externus,
add. brevis (in part), and the adductor part of the add. magnus

Question 12

What is the distribution of the obturator nerve anterior branches?

Answer 12

descends behind pectineus and add. longus, on anterior surface of add. brevis. Supplies gracilis, add. longus, add. brevis, and often contributes to the supply of the pectineus. Also articular branch to hip.

Question 13

What is the a cutaneous branch of obturator a branch of?

Answer 13

anterior branch, innervates skin of medial thigh, in rare cases may extent distally onto leg.