Thigh

Question 1

What are 5 special arrangements found in the thigh?

Answer 1

Femoral triangle, adductor canal, popliteal fossa, Pes anserinus, anatomical tripod

Question 2

What runs thru the femoral triangle?

Answer 2

Femoral nerve/artery/vein/lymphatics

Question 3

What does the adductor canal contain?

Answer 3

Femoral artery/vein, saphenous nerve, larger nerve to vastus. Medialis

Question 4

Contents of popliteal fossa

Answer 4

Termination of small saphenous vein, Popliteal arteries/veins, tibial/common fibular nerves, posterior cutaneous nerve of thigh, popliteeal lymph nodes/lymphatic vessles

Question 5

Pes Anserinus tendons

Answer 5

Sartorius, gracilis, semitendinosis

Question 6

Compartments of the thigh

Answer 6

Anterior (largest), medial, posterior

Question 7

Anterior compartment muscles

Answer 7

Quadriceps, sartorius, articularis genus

Question 8

4 Quadricep Muscles

Answer 8

Vastus: Lateralis, medialis, Intermedius

Reectus femoris

Question 9

What muscle of the thigh is known as the tear drop?

Answer 9

Vastus Medialis

Question 10

What anterior thigh muscle is completely deep to all of the thigh muscles

Answer 10

Vastus Intermedius

Question 11

What muscle has the neurovascular bundle deep to it?

Answer 11

Sartorius

Question 12

What muscle inserts into the knee joint capsule?

Answer 12

Articularis Genus

Question 13

Medial compartment muscles

Answer 13

Adductors, Pectineus, Gracilis

Question 14

4 adductor muscles of the thigh

Answer 14

Longus, brevis, magnus (adductor and hamstring)

Question 15

What muscle is torn in 90% of groin tears?

Answer 15

Adductor Longus

Question 16

Which muscle has perforations in it’s femoral insertion to allow for branches of the deep artery of the thigh?

Answer 16

Adductor magnus adductor part

Question 17

Posterior Compartment muscles

Answer 17

Biceps femoris, Semimembranosis, Semitendinosis

Question 18

Common origin of the posterior compartment mucles

Answer 18

Ischial tuberosity

Question 19

What is the most common source of elderly knee pain?

Answer 19

The anatomical tripod

Question 20

What innervates the Anterior Thigh Compartment?

Answer 20

Femoral nerve

Question 21

What doe the oburator nerve innervate?

Answer 21

Medial thigh (no adductor magnus hamstring) and obturator externus

Question 22

Gluteal Nerve innervates what?

Answer 22

Superior (small gluteal) and Inferior (gluteus maximus)

Question 23

What does the common sciatic nerve turn into?

Answer 23

Common fibular and tibial nerves

Question 24

What does the common fibular nerve innervate?

Answer 24

Short head of biceps femoris, lateral cural compartment (superficial fibular), anterior crural compartment/dorsal foot muscles (deep fibular)

Question 25

What does the tibial nerve innervate?

Answer 25

Posterior thigh, adductor magnus adductor, posterior crural compartment, 1 LAFF(1st lumbrical, abductor, flexor hallicis, flexor digitorum=medial plantar nerve), Rest of foot=Lateral plantar nerve