Matthew Shared "Musculoskeletal" - 82 Picmonics
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Musculoskeletal
ACL Tear
- Mechanism
- Non-contact
- Popping
- Sudden Stop
- Change in Direction
- Unhappy Triad
- Sign
- Lachman Test
- Treatment
- Reconstruction if Severe
1 min
MCL Tear
- Mechanism
- Medial Knee Injury
- Unhappy Triad
- Football
- Skiing
- Sign
- Valgus Stress Test
- Treatment
- Conservative Management
54 secs
Meniscus Tear
- Fibrocartilage Semicircular Band
- Traumatic
- Unhappy Triad
- Degenerative
- Symptoms
- Clicking and Locking
- McMurray Test
- Pain on External Rotation
- Treatment
- Conservative Management
- Surgery
1 min
Rotator Cuff
- External Rotation
- Teres Minor
- Infraspinatus
- Internal Rotation
- Subscapularis
- Abduction
- Supraspinatus
1 min
Anterior Shoulder Dislocation
- Axillary Nerve Damage
- Axillary Artery
- Rotator Cuff Injury
- Supraspinatus Tendon
- Anterior Glenohumeral Ligament
- Anatomic Lesions
- Bankart's Lesion
- Hill-Sachs Lesion
1 min
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
- Median Nerve Entrapment
- Compression at Carpal Tunnel
- Numbness, Tingling and Pain in Hand
- Diagnosis
- Phalen's Maneuver
- Tinel's Sign
- Treatment
- Splints
- Surgery
- Steroids
2 mins
Carpal Bones
- "Some Lovers Try Positions That They Can't Handle"
- Scaphoid
- Lunate
- Triquetrum
- Pisiform
- Trapezium
- Trapezoid
- Capitate
- Hamate
1 min
Nerve Palsies - Erb's Palsy (Waiter's tip)
- Nerves
- C5-C6 Roots
- Superior (Upper) Trunk
- Causes
- Lateral Traction on Neck during Delivery
- Trauma in Adults
- Functional Deficit
- Deltoid
- Infraspinatus
- Biceps Brachii
- Presentation
- Waiter's Tip Deformity
2 mins
Nerve Palsies - Klumpke's Palsy
- Nerve
- C8 to T1 Roots
- Lower Trunk
- Causes
- Upward Arm Force during Delivery
- Adult Trauma
- Grabbing Tree Branch to Break a Fall
- Muscle Affected
- Intrinsic Hand Muscles
- Presentation
- Claw Hand
1 min
Nerve Palsies - Thoracic Outlet Syndrome
- Nerve
- Compression of Brachial Plexus
- Compression of Subclavian Vessels
- Causes
- Cervical Rib Abnormality
- Trauma
- Weight Lifters
- Pancoast Tumor
- Presentation
- Edema
- Claw Hand
- Pain
1 min
Nerve Palsies - Winged Scapula
- Nerve
- Long Thoracic Nerve
- Causes
- Axillary Node Dissection in Mastectomy
- Stab Wound
- Muscle Affected
- Serratus Anterior
- Functional Deficit
- Scapula Cannot Anchor to Thorax
- Presentation
- Inability to Raise Arm Above Head
1 min
Nerve Palsies - Ulnar Claw
- Nerve
- Distal Ulnar Nerve
- Causes
- Fracture Hook of Hamate (distal injury)
- Cyclists
- Compression Guyon's Canal
- Functional Deficit
- Unable to Extend 4th and 5th Digits
- Presentation
- Hand Resembles Ulnar Claw on Extension
- Complications
- Atrophy of Hypothenar Eminence
1 min
Nerve Palsies - Pope's Blessing
- Nerve
- Proximal Median Nerve
- Causes
- Supracondylar Fracture of Humerus
- Functional Deficit
- Loss of Flexion of Thumb, Pointer and Middle Finger
- Presentation
- Trouble Making a Fist
- Hand Resembles Popes Blessing on Flexion
- Complications
- Atrophy of Thenar Eminence
1 min
Nerve Palsies - Median Claw
- Nerve
- Distal Median Nerve
- Causes
- Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
- Deficit
- Unable to Extend Thumb, Pointer and Middle Finger
- Presentation
- Clawing of Digits 1-3
- Tinels Sign
- Phalens Sign
- Complication
- Atrophy of Thenar Eminence
2 mins
Nerve Palsies - OK Gesture
- Nerve
- Proximal Ulnar Nerve
- Causes
- Fracture Medial Epicondyle of Humerus (proximal injury)
- Deficit
- Unable to Flex 4th and 5th Digits
- Presentation
- Trouble Making a Fist
- Resembles OK gesture
- Complication
- Hypothenar Atrophy
2 mins
Hand Muscles
- Characteristics
- Opponens Pollicis
- Abductor Pollicis Brevis
- Flexor Pollicis Brevis
- Flexor Digiti Minimi Brevis
- Abductor Digiti Minimi Brevis
- Opponens Digiti Minimi
- Lumbricals
- Interossei (Palmar and Dorsal)
- Palmaris Brevis
- Adductor Pollicis
2 mins
Leg Nerves
- Femoral
- Saphenous
- Posterior Femoral Cutaneous
- Sciatic
- Tibial
- Common Peroneal
- Superficial Peroneal
- Deep Peroneal
1 min
Posterior Thigh Muscles
- Innervation
- Sciatic Nerve
- Muscles
- Biceps Femoris
- Long and Short Head
- Flex Knee
- Extend Hip
- Laterally Rotate Hip
- Semitendinosus and Semimembranosus
- Flex Knee
- Extend Thigh
- Medially Rotate Thigh and Leg
1 min
Anterior Thigh Muscles
- Innervation
- Femoral Nerve
- Muscles
- Iliopsoas
- Psoas Innervated by L1-3
- Sartorius
- Pectineus
- Quadriceps Femoris
- Vastus Lateralis
- Vastus Intermedius
- Vastus Medialis
- Rectus Femoris
2 mins
Medial Thigh Muscles
- Action
- Adduct the Thigh
- Innervation
- Obturator Nerve
- Muscles
- Adductor Magnus
- Tibial Nerve
- Adductor Longus
- Adductor Brevis
- Gracilis
- Obturator Externus
- Laterally Rotates Thigh
1 min
