What muscles are in the anterior compartment
What muscles are in the lateral compartment of the leg
Femoral artery passes under which ligament?
Ingunal
Main blood supply to all compartments of the thigh is..?
What does the popliteal artery split into?
Anterior and posterior tibial arteries
Fibular artery is a branch of the _____ artery
Posterior tibial
Sciatic nerve devices into:
Where does the division of the sciatic nerve into tibial and common fibular nerve occur?
Usually in the lower third of the posterior thigh
What muscles do the tibial nerve supply ?
Posterior thigh
- biceps femoris long head
- biceps femoris short head
- semim?endinosis
What does the tibial nerve innervate ?
What would be the consequence of injury to the tibial nerve
What does the common fibular nerve innervate?
Short head of biceps femoris
What two branches does the common fibular nerve divide into?
Where does the deep fibular nerve descend in and along with what?
Functions of the deep fibular nerve
What does the superficial fibular nerve innervate ?
Lateral compartment of the leg
Function of the superficial fibular nerve
What is the most common nerve in the lower limb to be damaged?
Common fibular nerve
Why is the common fibular nerve so prone to damage?
It is relatively unprotected at the fibular neck
- very superficial 33
What things may cause a common fibular nerve injury ?
Trauma: fracture of fibular head
Compression, e.g. plaster cast
What would be the consequence of injury to the common fibular nerve ?
Supplies anterior and lateral compartments
- lose dorsiflexion
- weakened inversion
- lose evision
Swing phase versus stance
Swing - a foot is off the ground
Stance - both on the ground
Note that the stance phase of one limb does not end immediately when the opposite limb strikes the ground (i.e., there is a time when both limbs are on the ground) - period of double support