pns injuries of the ue powerpoint from dr shappy Flashcards
What is a GTO
Golgi tendon organ, a proprioceptor that monitors level of tension in the muscle. Found in the tendon.
muscle Spindles
-serve as mechanoreceptors- lie parallel to muscle fibers; respond to muscle stretching
A type of proprioceptor
Afferent neuron
carries info towards brain
(sensory)
Efferent neuron
carries signals to tissues
(motor)
3 Layers of connective tissue covering a nerve fiber
Epineurium
Perineurium
Myelin sheath (like insulator on an extension cord)
What can cause Peripheral nerve response to injury? (5)
- Compression/Trauma
- Heredity
- Infections
- Toxin
- Metabolic
What are two Peripheral Nerve break down responses to injury?
Demylination - typically segmental
or
Degeneration - more severe (Anterograde/Wallerian)
Compression of a nerve can start the inflammation process due to ____________.
Lack of oxygen
Saturday night palsy
Radial nerve compression against the spiral groove of the humerus -> weak wrist and finger extension, weak brachioradialis reflex, normal triceps
Erbs Palsy
Superior Brachial Plexus injury. Caused by excessive separation of the head and neck such as falling with shoulder on ground, or excessive stretching during baby delivery
Demyelination is typically _____.
segmental
Is nerve demyelination or degeneration more severe?
degeneration
What are two names for the same type of nerve degeneration?
Anterograde degeneraton
Wallerian degeneration
wallerian degeneration
Changes that occur in a axon that has been injured. It is degeneration that occurs distally, specifically to the myelin sheath and axon.
PN Regeneration
a slow process, axonal sprouting - can get lost and not find correct endoneurial tube
What is an endoneurial tube, and what is its role in axon regeneration?
Endoneurial tube consists of endoneurium, Schwann cells, and myelin sheath that serve to guide axon growth.
PN reinnervation
can occur when adjacent neuron innervates muscle fibers of injured neuron, collateral sprouting
What are two Peripheral Nerve break down responses to injury?
Regeneration - axonal sprouting that re-connects original nerve (slow and can get lost)
Or
Reinnervation - adjacent neuron innervates muscle fibers of injured neuron through collateral sprouting
what are some other ways besides a strain, sprain, or fracture that a peripheral nerve can be injured?
- metabolic,
- such as Na imbalance
- genetic
- chemical, such as
- bug bite
- Virus
- Surgery
describe what is going on in the picture
- Injury
- nerve retracts (anterograde/wallerian degeneration) & rest of the nerve dies. Atrophy very quick.
- Regeneration: Sprouting. (in this case it is finding the cone). Lots of atrophy happens quickly.
- nerve continues to heal. Oligodendrocytes regenerate myelin. Innervated muscle hypertrophy
describe the picture
- nerve is cut with scapule
- separation (we don’t have specifics for this)
- Wallerian degeneration - retraction of nerve and break down of part distal to cut
- after 72 hrs axonal sprouting and macrophages clear out old dying part of nerve in inflammatory process.
Three classifications of nerve injury
- Neuropraxia - caused by mild ischemia
- segmental demyelination blocking conduction
- Axonotmesis - prolonged compression & necrosis
- axon damage connective tissue intact
- Neurotmesis - complete severance of axon & disruption of connective tissue
- gun shot, stab (can be surgical) or avusion
- muscle fiber atrophy due to loss of trophic substance
Neuropraxia
A segmental demyelination blocking conduction caused by mild ischemia
usually takes only minutes to get better (hopefully not hours)
one of three classifications of nerve injury
Axonotmesis
Axon damaged, but connective tissue intact
Cone doesn’t need to develop because there is not wallerian degeneration
one of three classifications of nerve injury