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What is Popeye’s sign?
Rupture of long head of the biceps
Flexing the elbow results in prominent bulge of muscle belly
Describe the path of the superior ulnar collateral artery
Branches from the brachial artery and passes posterior to the medial epicondyle
What are the borders of the cubital fossa?
Superior: imaginary line between the medial and lateral epicondyles of humerus
Medial: Pronator teres
Lateral border: Brachioradialis
What is the contents of the cubital fossa?
Lateral to Medial
Tendon of the bicps brachii
Artery- Brachial artery
Nerve - Median nerve
Why does the humerus dislocate inferiorly?
The rotator cuff tendons are not present below the shoulder joint
What is painful arc syndrome?
Inflammation of the subacromial bursa
Results in pain during abduction from 70 to 120 degrees
What are the boundaries of the Quadrangular space? Contents?
Teres minor, Teres major, long head of triceps, surgical neck of the humerus
Axillary nerve and posterior circumflex humeral vessels
What are the boundaries of the triangular interval? Contents?
Teres major, Long and lateral head of triceps
Radial nerve, and deep brachial artery
What are the boundaries of the triangular space? Contents?
Teres minor, teres major, long head of triceps
Circumflex scapular artery
What are the contents of the carpal tunnel?
Median Nerve
Flexor digitorum superficialis and profundus tendons
Flexor pollicis longus
What is tennis elbow?
Inflammation of the common tendon from the lateral epicondyle due to repeated extension of the wrist joint
What is Mallet or Baseball finger?
Rupture of the lateral slips of the extensor expansion that insert into the distal phalanx
Due to a hyperflexion of the DIP joint
What is Boutonniere deformity?
Rupture of the central slip of the extensor expansion that inserts into the middle phalanx
Results from flexion of the PIP joint and extension of the DIP joint from trauma to the end of the dorsum of the finer
