Test 5.49.50.51 Foot Flashcards
- How many tarsals are there? Give names
- Medial cuneiform
- Intermediate cuneiform
- Lateral cuneiform
- Cuboid
- Navicular
- Talus
- Calcaneus
- How many metarsals?
5
- How many phalanges?
14 (1st toe has only 2)
- Where are the sesamoid bones located?
Medial and lateral are in the tendons of flexor hallucis brevis muscle, on head of first metarsal
- Bones of hindfoot? Midfoot? Forefoot? Ball of foot?
Hindfoot = calcaneus, talus
Midfoot = cuboid, navicular, cuneiforms
Forefoot = phalanges and metatarsals
Ball of foot = sesamoid of 1st met and head of 2nd met
- Know significance of fractures of tarsal bones
Notepool
- How is the skin on the dorsal surface of the foot?
Thin and loose
- The deep fascia is continuous of what?
Crural fascia and fascia of the plantar surface of foot
- Thickening of the deep fascia forms what? What parts comprise this structure? Give the attachments for two of these parts
Forms inferior extensor retinaculum
Stem (frondiform ligament)
Superomedial limb – attaches at the anterior surface of medial malleolus
Inferomedial limb – attaches by blending with the plantar fascia
- Give the four cutaneous nerves of the foot; draw their spatial relationship to each other.
Saphenous nerve
Lateral dorsal cutaneous nerve
Superficial peroneal nerve
Deep peroneal nerve
- Where is the saphenous nerve located on the foot? How far does it go?
Medial side of foot, 1st metatarsal
- The lateral dorsal cutaneous nerve is a continuation of what nerve?
Sural nerve into foot
- What branches does the superficial peroneal nerve give off in the foot? What does it supply?
Medial and intermediate dorsal cutaneous nerves
Supplies middle part of the dorsum of the foot
- What does the deep peroneal nerve supply in the foot?
Skin between 1st and 2nd toes
- Tendons and muscles (of both leg and foot) are?
Extensor digitorum longus
Extensor hallucis longus
Extensor digitorum brevis
Extensor hallucis brevis
- What tendon(s) does the extensor digitorum longus provide? What side?
One tendon for each of the lateral four toes
Dorsal expansion over toes
- What is the only intrinsic muscle of dorsum of foot? Where does it extend?
Extensor digitorum brevis
Extends toe 2-4
- The extensor hallucis brevis is part of what muscle?
Extensor digitorum brevis
- Draw the arteries of the foot:
a. Lateral and medial tarsal
b. Arcuate
Branches of dorsal metatarsal arteries, dorsal digital arteries
(know what is the exception(s)
Perforating arteries
c. Deep plantar artery
d. First dorsal metatarsal artery
drawing
- What do the perforating arteries connect?
Dorsal metatarsal arteries with the deep plantar arch