Shoulder Flashcards
What are the 4 components of the appendicular skeleton?
Upper extremities
Lower extremities
Pectoral girdle
Pelvic girdle
What are the 5 regions of the upper extremity?
Shoulder Arm Forearm Wrist Hand
The pectoral girdle is made of which 2 bones?
Scapula
Clavicle
The shoulder is also called?
Glenohumeral joint
What type of joint is the shoulder?
Bone-in-socket synovial
What 3 bones articulate at the shoulder joint?
Head of humerus
Glenoid cavity of scapula
Clavicle
True or False. The bones of the shoulder joint are covered in hyaline cartilage with a joint capsule directly on top.
False. The bones of the shoulder joint are covered in hyaline, and then the synovial membrane and then the joint capsule.
What structure is superficial to the synovial membrane?
Joint capsule
Which 2 structures project from the scapula and in what direction?
Acromion
Coracoid process
Anteriorly
True or False. The humerus is the only bone in the arm.
True
From the head of the humerus moving distally, what are the 3 bony structures of the humerus?
Anatomical neck
Surgical neck
Deltoid tuberosity
Where are most fractions of the humerus?
Surgical neck
The deltoid tuberosity is more medial or lateral?
Lateral
What separates the tubercles?
Intertubercular groove
What structure runs within the intertubercular groove?
Tendon of long head of biceps brachii
Which is more lateral, the greater or lesser tubercle?
Greater
Lesser tubercle is more anterior/medial
What 3 joints make up the shoulder region?
Glenohumeral
Acromioclavicular
Sternoclavicular
What is the only bony articulation between the upper extremity and axial skeleton?
Sternoclavicular joint
The glenoid cavity is deep or shallow?
Shallow
What structure deepens the glenoid cavity?
Glenoid labrum
What are the 5 important ligaments of the shoulder?
Transverse humeral Glenohumeral Coracoacromial Acromioclavicular Coracoclavicular
Which ligament connects the greater and lesser tubercle?
Transverse humeral ligament
How many glenohumeral ligaments are there? What are their names?
3
Superior
Middle
Inferior