MSK Board Review Questions

Which nerve injury results in medial scapular winging?

• Spinal Accessory Nerve

• Axillary Nerve

• Suprascapular Nerve

• Long Thoracic Nerve

A 40 year old male presents to your office with reduced grip strength and pain over the ulnar side of his wrist. The patient gives a history of being a professional cyclist with multiple falls in the past. X-rays show sclerosis and fragmentation of the lunate. The patient most likely has which disease?

• Iselin's

• Kienbock's

• Panner's

• Sever's

The short head of the biceps femoris is innervated by which nerve?

• Obturator

• Inferior Gluteal

• Tibial

• Common fibular (peroneal)

Which carpal bone fracture is most associated with causing an ulnar neuropathy at the wrist?

• Scaphoid fracture

• Lunate fracture

• Hamate fracture

• Capitate fracture

After which arthroplastic procedure is development of heterotopic ossification most common?

• Shoulder

• Knee

• Elbow

• Hip

Superiro labral cysts associated with posterior glenoid labral tears can dissect to the spinoglenoid notch. If the nerve traversing this notch is impinged by the cyst then weakness can occur in which of the following muscles?

• Supraspinatus only

• Supraspinatus and infraspinatus

• Infraspinatus only

• Subscapularis only

Which muscle does not inset at the Pes Anserine?

• Gracilis

• Semitendinosus

• Semimembranosus

• Sartorius

How long are hip precautions routinely continued after total hip arthroplasty?

• 4 weeks

• 8 weeks

• 12 weeks

• 6 months

A 55 year old woman has undergone a total hip replacement surgery. On physical exam, you note the left hip drops during the ipsilateral stance phase of the gait cycle. Where is the muscle weakness?

• Left gluteus medius

• Left obturator externus

• Right gluteus medius

• Right gluteus maximus

A 30 year old male who works as an administrative assistant at a hospital presents to your office with pain and tenderness over the radial side of his wrist. During the exam, you place the patient's thumb flexed in the palm of his hand with his fingers making a fist over his thumb. You then ulnar deviate his wrists and it elicits increased pain. Which tendon is most likely causing the pain?

• Extensor Pollicis Longus

• Extensor Pollicis Brevis

• Abductor Pollicis Brevis

• Adductor Pollicis