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Clinical Leg Flashcards

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Common fibular nerve (L4-S2) pathway

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  • From sciatic nerve
  • Passes around fibular neck
  • Enters lateral compartment by passing through posterior intermuscular septum
  • Bifurcates into terminal branches
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Bifurcation of someone fibular nerve (L4-S2) terminal branches

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  • Deep fibular nerve

- Superficial fibular nerve

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Deep fibular nerve pathway

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  • Terminal branch of common fibular nerve
  • passes through anterior intermuscular septum
  • Enters anterior compartment
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Common fibular nerve (L4-S2) injury

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  • Susceptible to injury as it passes around fibula
  • Prolonged compression
  • Trauma
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Prolonged compression of common fibular may result from

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  • Tight casts

- Excessive sitting/sleeping position

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Injury to common fibular nerve (L4-S2) associated with

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  • Footdrop (increased tripping with gait)
  • Weak dorsifelxion, to extension, and eversion
  • Steppage gait
  • Loss of sensation of distal anterolateral leg, dorsum of foot, 1st web space
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Transmalleolar angle

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  • Line between center of medial/lateral malleoli
  • In relation to line passing through knee joint axis
  • Measures tibial torsion
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Normal range of tibial torsion

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  • Childhood: -10-0 degrees

- Adults: 10-15 degrees external rotation

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Obtaining tibial torsion angle

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  • Measure transmalleolar angle

- Can also use thigh foot angle

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Measuring transmalleolar angle

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  • Patient prone
  • Line through the longitudinal axis of the thigh
  • Line perpendicular to the most prominent point of the malleloli
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Measuring thigh foot angle

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  • Patient prone

- Line bisecting foot and line bisecting thigh

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Kager angle

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  • Radiolucent triangle seen one lateral radiographs

- Kager fat pad (pre-calcaneal fat pad/pre-Achilles fat pad)

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Kager triangle may be obliterated by pathologies

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  • Achilles pathology (tearing, inflammation)
  • Calcaneal fracture
  • FHL tendon pathology
  • Accessory soleus muscle
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Tarsal tunnel syndrome

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  • Compressive neuropathy of tibial nerve or it’s branches within the tarsal tunnel
  • Porta pedis is also entrapment site
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Symptoms of tarsal tunnel syndrome

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  • Altered sensation of medial/plantar foot and medial ankle (tibial nerve distribution)
  • Atrophy of intrinsic foot muscles (prolonged compression)
  • Tinel sign
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Tinel sign

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  • Pain with tapping

- Percussing the nerve in tunnel

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Symptoms of tarsal tunnel syndrome may be reproduced by

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  • Sustained dorsiflexion of ankle and MTPJs

- Sustained plantarflexion and inversion

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Tarsal tunnel syndrome may be treated

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  • Surgically

- Conservatively

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Boundaries of tarsal tunnel

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  • Medial: flexor retinaculum (laciniate ligament) and abductor hallucis
  • Lateral: calcaneus, posterior talotibial and calcaneotibial ligaments
  • Distal margin: porta pedis
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Tarsal tunnel MEDIAL boundary

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  • Flexor retinaculum (laciniate ligament)

- Abductor hallucis

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Tarsal tunnel LATERAL boundary

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  • Calcaneus
  • Posterior tibial and calcaneotibial ligaments
  • Tibia, talus, calcaneus (body and sustentaculum tail)
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Tarsal tunnel DISTAL MARGIN

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Ankle nerve blocks used for

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  • Procedures fo the foot
  • Pain relief
  • When more local is not possible, etc.
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Ankle blocks avoid general anesthesia, avoiding

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  • Motor block of the leg muscles

- Sensory of the leg

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Ankle blocks avoid releasing
- Anesthesia into vessels and puncturing nerves | - Anesthesia is released around the nerve
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Most of the foot is innervated by nerves derived from
- Sciatic nerve (except 1) - 5 nerves located at ankle (sensory innervation foot) - (3 superficial, 2 deep)
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3 superficial ankle nerves
- Saphenous - Sural - Superficial fibular
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2 deep ankle nerves
- Posterior tibial | - Deep fibular
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Posterior tibial nerve is blocked via
- Medial calcaneal branches | - Medial/lateral plantar nerves
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Sural nerve blocks
- Lateral ankle - Lateral heel - Lateral foot - Lateral 5th digit
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Deep fibular nerve blocks
- 1st web space - Superficial fibular - Most of the dorsum of the foot and toes
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Saphenous nerve blocks
- Medial foot
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Subcutaneous nerve blocks at level of malleoli
- Saphenous - Superficial fibular - Sural - Where they are blocked depends on procedure
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Deep fibular nerve block landmarks
- EHL and TA tendons | - Medial malleolus
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Perimalleolar (deep fibular nerve block)
- Lateral to EHL | - Level of the superior aspect of medial malleolus
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Midtarsal (deep fibular nerve block)
- Lateral to EHL | - Medial to dorsalis pedis artery pulse
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Superficial fibular nerve block
- Subcutaneous between lateral malleolus and EHL tendon (landmarks) - Perimalleolar - Anesthesia is administered in the area between the 2 landmarks
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Perimalleolar (superficial fibular nerve block)
- Between superior aspect of lateral malleolus and EHL
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Sural nerve block
- Perimalleolar | - Anesthesia is administered between the 2 landmarks
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Perimalleolar (sural nerve block)
- Subcutaneous | - Between Achilles tendon and superior aspect of lateral malleolus
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Posterior tibial nerve block
- Perimalleolar - Posterior to posterior tibial pulse - (Midway between superior aspect of medial malleolus and Achilles tendon)
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Perimalleolar (posterior tibial nerve block)
- Deep to the deep fascia | - Posterior to medial malleolus
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Saphenous nerve block
- Perimalleolar | - Saphenous vein is nearby and can be punctured easily
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Perimalleolar (saphenous nerve block)
- Subcutaneous between TA tendon and medial malleolus
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Posterior tibial nerve blocks
- Plantar foot - Medial heel - Toe tips
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Deep fibular nerve block location
- Deeply located at ankle | - Deep to deep fascia
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Types of deep fibular nerve blocks
- Perimalleolar | - Midtarsal
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Deep nerve blocks at level of malleoli
- Deep fibular - Posterior tibial - Located deep to retinacula - More superficial distally - Where they are blocked depends on procedure
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