Orthopaedic mnemonics

Question 1

Mnemonic for the reflexes

Answer 1

1,2 buckle my shoe (S1,S2 = ankle)
3,4, shut the door (L3,L4 = knee)
5,6 pick up sticks (C5,C6 = biceps and brachioradialis)
7,8 shut the gate (C7,C8 = triceps)

Question 2

Serratus anterior innervation and nerve roots

Answer 2

Supplied by the long thoracic nerve

C5, C6, C7 raise your arms up to heaven

Question 3

What does the musculocutaneous nerve supply?

Answer 3

BBC:
biceps
brachialis
coracobrachialis

Question 4

What are the superficial forearm flexors?

Answer 4

Players follow pimps for fun:
pronator teres
flexor carpi radialis
palmaris longus
flexor carpi ulnaris
flexor digitorum superficialis

Question 5

What does the radial nerve supply?

Answer 5

BREAST:
BrachioRadialis
Extensors
Anconeus
Supinator
Triceps

Question 6

What muscles of the hand does the median nerve supply?

Answer 6

LOAF:
Lateral 2 lumbricals
Opponens pollicis
Abductor pollicis brevis
Flexor pollicis brevis

Question 7

Which interossei of the hand do what?

Answer 7

PAD/DAB
Palmar aDduct
Dorsal aBduct

Question 8

What is the mnemonic to remember the hand deformities?

Answer 8

DR CUMA
Drop wrist = Radial nerve
Claw hand = Ulnar nerve
Median nerve = Ape hand

Question 9

How to remember the contents of the femoral sheath from lateral to medial?

Answer 9

NAVEL
Nerve
Artery
Vein
Empty space
Lymph nodes

Question 10

What are the external hip rotators?

Answer 10

Pretty Girls Often Grow Old Quickly:
Piriformis
Gemellus superior
Obturator internus
Gemellus inferior
Obturator externus
Quadratus femoris

Question 11

What are the foot invertors vs evertors?

Answer 11

IN: tIbialis posterior/anterior
EV: pErineus longus/brevis/tertius

Question 12

What are the structures behind the medial malleolus?

Answer 12

Tom, Dick and A Very Nervous Harry
Tibialis posterior
Flexor digitorum longus
Artery (posterior tibial)
Vein (posterior tibial)
Nerve (posterior tibial)
flexor Hallucis longus

Question 13

What are the Salter-Harris fractures?

Answer 13

SALTR
Separation
Above
Lower
Through
Rammed (compression)

Question 14

Age of ossification in the paediatric elbow

Answer 14

CRITOL
Capitellum: 1 year
Radial head: 3 years
Internal (medial) epicondyle: 5 years
Trochlea: 7 years
Olecranon: 9 years
Lateral epicondyle: 11 years

Question 15

What are the XR features of osteoarthritis?

Answer 15

LOSS:
Loss of joint space
Osteophytes
Subchondral sclerosis
Subchondral cysts