Thigh Quiz Questions Flashcards
What are the 3 muscles that boarder the Femoral Triangle? (Mnemonic = SAIL)
Sartorius (lateral) Adductor longus (medial) Inguinal Ligament (superior boarder)
What 3 muscles make up the floor of the femoral triangle?
Iliopsoas (later) Adductor Longus (medial) Pectineus (medial between iliopsoas and adductor longus)
What does the femoral triangle contain? In order from medial to lateral (Mnemonic = NAVY)
Femoral Nerve, Femoral Artery, Femoral Vein, Inguinal Lymph Nodes
What is the retro-inguinal space?
A space between the inguinal ligament and pelvis.
What two compartments make up the retro-inguinal space?
Muscular and vascular compartments
What is found in the muscular compartment of the retro-inguinal space of the femoral triangle?
Iliopsoas muscle and femoral nerve
What is found in the vascular compartment of the retro-inguinal space?
Femoral Artery, Femoral vein, Inguinal lymph nodes
What is the iliopectinal arch?
it divides the muscular and vascular compartments of the retro-inguinal space
Where is the adductor canal?
Middle third of thigh, approximately 15cm long.
Begins at distal end (apex) of femoral triangle
What are the boarders of the adductor canal?
vastus medialis,
adductor longus,
adductor magnus,
sartorius
What does the adductor canal contain?
femoral artery,
femoral vein,
saphenous nerve,
nerve to vastus medialis
Where does the adductor canal end?
adductor hiatus
What divides the retro-inguinal space into muscular and vascular compartments?
The iliopectineal arch
What is the name of the space between the inguinal ligament and the pelvis?
The retro-inguinal space
What is the proximal attachment of semitendinosus?
Ischial tuberosity
What is the proximal attachment of biceps femoris?
Ischial tuberosity, linea aspera and lateral supracondylar line
When a segment of a limb is shortened following a fracture of a long bone this is known as:
Foreshortening
What is the distal attachment of articularis genu?
The superior aspect of the knee joint
Which spinal nerves are most important for the quadricep muscles?
L3 and L4
What travels in the muscular compartment of the retro-inguinal space?
Femoral nerve
Where do femoral fractures occur most frequently?
The neck of the femur
What is the proximal attachment of gracilis?
Body and inferior ramus of pubis
Aponeurotic fibres from which muscle form the lateral patellar retinaculum?
Vastus lateralis
Which adductor is the weakest?
Gracilis
Which part of adductor magnus may flex the thigh?
Adductor part
How many of the quadricep muscles extend the leg at the knee
4