Leg
What is the fibula?
This nerve innervates the sole of the foot.
What is the tibial nerve?
This is the treatment for compartment syndrome.
What is fasciotomy?
This is what the crural fascia is called as it connects the tibia and fibula. 200 BONUS points if you know what two compartments it separates as it connects the tibia and fibula.
What is the interosseous membrane? What is anterior and posterior deep compartments?
These veins form the dorsal venous arch. 200 BONUS points if you know which vein drains which side of the leg?
What are the great and small saphenous veins? Great is medial; small is lateral.
A patient comes in to your clinic exhibiting weakness of the ankle and severe dorsiflexion. This nerve is damaged. 100 BONUS points if you know the clinical name for this presentation.
What is the common fibular nerve? What is foot drop?
This specific region is where the common fibular nerve is in an unprotected subcutaneous location.
What is the neck of the fibula?
These nerves supply all intrinsic muscles and skin of the sole.
What are the tibial nerve and medial and lateral plantar nerves?
These are the two pulses found in the foot and ankle region.
What are dorsalis pedis and posterior tibial pulses?
List the order of the tendons and other structures as they pass the medial mallelous. 100 BONUS points if you know what compartment of the leg all of these structures come from.
What is tibialis posterior, flexor digitorum longus, posterior tibial artery, tibial nerve, flexor hallucis longus. What is the posterior compartment?
A patient comes in to your clinic after a crush injury to the dorsum of their foot causing muscle damage. The patient would most likely have damage to this nerve as well. 100 BONUS points if you know what action this patient would not be able to perform.
What is the deep fibular nerve? What is extension of the toes?
A patient presents with lateral left foot pain due to extreme forceful inversion. This is the kind of fracture that you would be concerned about.
What is an avulsion fracture of the tuberosity of the 5th metatarsal?
Explain why the tibialis anterior muscle is the strongest dorsiflexor. 100 BONUS points if you know the other action of the tibialis anterior.
Tibialis anterior attaches to the medial side of the foot making it's tendon the farthest from the ankle joint. What is inversion of the foot?
First layer: abductor hallucis, abductor digiti minimi, flexor digitorum brevis
second layer: quadratus plantae, lumbricals, flexor hallucis longus tendon, flexor digitorum longus tendon
third layer: flexor hallucis brevis, flexor digiti minimi brevis, adductor hallucis
fourth layer: plantar interossei, dorsal interossei, fibularis longus tendon, tibialis posterior tendon
A patient presents to your clinic with intense pain to their medial arch. These bones would be involved and may be damaged.
What are the Calcaneus, talus, navicular, 3 cuneiforms, and metatarsals 1-3?