Week 11

Question 1

What is the deep fascia of the foot?

Answer 1

Medial, Lateral Plantar fascia
Plantar aponeurosis
Dorsal fascia

Question 2

Plantar aponeurosis attachments

Answer 2

Calcaneus

The fiborous sheaths of the digital tendons and sesimoid bones

Question 3

Where does the vertical intermuscular septa of the foot run?

Answer 3

Between the 1st o 5th metatarsals

Question 4

What are the compartments of the foot?

Answer 4

Medial
Central
Lateral

Question 5

Contents of the medial compartment of the foot?

Answer 5

Abductor hallucis
Flexor hallucis brevis
Tendo of flexor hallucis longus
Medial plntar nerves and vessels

Question 6

What are the contents of the Central compartment of the foot?

Answer 6

Flexor digitorum brevis
Flexor digitorum longus tendon
Quadratus plantae
Lubricals
Adductor hallucis
Tendon of flexor hallucis longus
Lateral plantar nerves and vessels

Question 7

What are the contents of the lateral compartment of the foot?

Answer 7

Abductor digiti minimi

Flexor digiti minimi brevis

Question 8

What are the contents of the Interosseus compartment of the foot?

Answer 8

Metatarsals
Dorsal and plantar interossues muscles
Deep plantar and metatarsal vessels

Question 9

What are the contents of the dorsal compartment of the foot?

Answer 9

Extensor hallucis brevis
Extensor digitorum brevis
Neurovascular structures of the dorsum of the foot

Question 10

Which muscles are in the superficial (1st layer) of the foot?

Answer 10

Abductor Hallucis
Flexor digitorum brevis
Abductor digiti minimi

Question 11

DO NOT KNOW THE ATTACHMENTS OF THE FOOT MUSCLES!!!

Answer 11

Woop!

Question 12

What are the muscles in the 2nd layer of the foot?

Answer 12

Flexor digitorum longus tendons
Tendon of flexor hallucis longus
Quadratus plantae
Lumbricals

Question 13

What are the muscles in the 3rd layer of the foot?

Answer 13

Short muscles of the great and small toes
Flexor hallucis brevis
Adductor hallucis
Flexor digiti minimi

Question 14

What are the muscles in the deepest (4th) layer of the foot?

Answer 14

Plantar interossei muscle

Dorsal interossei muscle

Question 15

What are the muscles on the dorsal surface of the foot?

Answer 15

Extensor digitorum brevis

Extensor hallucis brevis

Question 16

What is the pathway of the saphenous nerve and what does it supply?

Answer 16

It is a terminal branch of the femoral nerve
begins at the adductor canal
passes between tendons of gracilis and sartorious
passes anterior to medial malleolus then over the dorsum of the foot
It supplies articular branches to the ankle joint and skin of the anteromedial shin, the medial side of the ankle and foot up until the head of the 1st metatarsal

Question 17

Which toe is the reference point for abduction and adduction of the toes?

Answer 17

The second digit

Question 18

What actions occur at the plantar and dorsal interossei?

Answer 18

Plantar adduct (PAD)
Dorsal abduct (DAB)
(small amounts of flexion occur at both)

Question 19

What does the superficial fibula nerve divide into?

Answer 19

medial and intermediate dorsal cutaneous nerves

Question 20

Whatt skin does the superficial fibula nerve supply?

Answer 20

skin over the dorsum of the foot
skin over the dorsal medial half of the big toe
skin over the lateral 3 and a half digits

Question 21

What forms sinus tarsi?

Answer 21

Calcanues and Talus

Question 22

Where does the deep fibula nerve run and what does it supply?

Answer 22

Passes deep to the extensor retinaculum, between extensor hallucis longus and extensor digitorum longus

Emerges between the 1st and 2nd digits

supplies Extensor hallucis brevis and Extensor digitorum brevis
supplies the tarsal and tarsometatarsal joints
supplies skin between the 1st and 2nd digits

Question 23

What are the branches of the tibial nerve?

Answer 23

Medial and lateral plantar nerves
common plantar digital nerves
proper plantar digital nerves

Question 24

What runs through the adductor canal?

Answer 24

nerve to vastus medialis
Femoral artery
Femoral nerve
saphenous nerve

Question 25

What is the adductor canal?

Answer 25

an intermuscular passageway through the medial thigh. It starts at the apex of the femoral triangle and finishes at the adductor hiatus

Question 26

What structures that run through the adductor canal continue through the adductor hiatus?

Answer 26

Femoral artery

Femoral vein

Question 27

What is the popliteal fossa?

Answer 27

A diamond shaped space on the posterior aspect of the knee that allows passageway of neurovascular structures between the thigh and the leg.

Question 28

What is the pathway of the medial plantar nerve? and what does it supply?

Answer 28

It is the larger and more anterior branch of the tibial nerve

Enters the sole of the foot, passing deep to abductor hallucis between layers 1 and 2
Runs between abductor hallucis and flexor digitorum brevis

Terminates as sensory branches as common and proper digital nerves

Question 29

What muscles does the medial plantar nerve supply?

Answer 29

abductor hallucis
Flexor digitorum brevis
Flexor hallucis brevis
1st lumbrical

Question 30

What makes up the pes anserine and what is there nerve supply?

Answer 30

SGT FOT!
Sartorious (femoral nerve)
Gracilis (Obturator nerve)
Semintendinosis (Tibial nerve)

Question 31

What is the cutaneous supply from the medial plantar nerve?

Answer 31

medial 3 and a half digits
skin over the medial and central aspects of the sole of the foot
plantar aspect of the joints of the foot

Question 32

What is the pathway of the lateral plantar nerve?

Answer 32

Passes deep to abductor hallucis
Runs between the 1st and 2nd layers of muscles with the lateral plantar artery
divides at the lateral compartment of the foot into superficial and deep branches

Question 33

What does the lateral plantar nerve supply?

Answer 33

All muscles in the plantar plantar surface of the foot, not supplied by the medial nerve
joints of the foot
skin of lateral 1 and a half digits and lateral sole

Question 34

What structures pass under the flexor retinaculum of the foot?

Answer 34

Tom Dick And Very Naughty Harry!!!
Tibialis posterior
flexor Digitorum longus
posterior tibial Artery
osterior tibial Vein
tibial Nerve
flexor Hallucis longus

Question 35

What are the two Sural nerves? What nerve do they come from? What structure do they run with? And what does it supply?

Answer 35

The two sural nerves are the lateral and medial sural nerves.

The medial sural nerve comes from the tibial nerve
The lateral sural nerves comes from the common fibular nerve

It accompanies the small saphenous vein

it supplies skin on the lateral aspect of the foot and the ankle joint

Question 36

What is the dorsalis pedis artery a continuation of?

Answer 36

The anterior tibial artery

Question 37

What is the pathway of the dorsalis pedis artery?

Answer 37

Passes deep to inferior extensor retinaculum
passes between tendons of EHL and EDL
at the 1st metatarsal it divides into 1st dorsal metatarsal artery and deep plantar artery

Question 38

What are the branches of the dorsalis pedis artery?

Answer 38

Lateral tarsal artery
arcuate artery
deep plantar artery
1st dorsal metatarsal artery

Question 39

What are the plantar arteries of the foot?

Answer 39

posterior tibial artery
Medial plantar artery
Lateral plantar artery

Question 40

What are the superficial veins of the foot?

Answer 40

dorsal metatarsal veins

dorsal venous arch

Question 41

What are the terminal branches of the dorsalis pedis artery

Answer 41

Firsst dorsal metatarsal artetry

Deep plantar arter

Question 42

What are the non-terminal branches of the dorsalis pedis artery?

Answer 42

Lateral tarsal artery

Arcuate artery