Help! Anatomy

[D1224]

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Does anyone have helpful/easy ways to learn the brachial plexus and origin,insertion,actions, and nerve innervation of muscles? I would appreciate any advice. I've been drawing things out and making tables, I usually do flashcards, but lately that hasn't been helping me.


Thank you!

 

[oregonprept]

Does anyone have helpful/easy ways to learn the brachial plexus and origin,insertion,actions, and nerve innervation of muscles? I would appreciate any advice. I've been drawing things out and making tables, I usually do flashcards, but lately that hasn't been helping me.


Thank you!

Easy way... lol, I wish there was an EASY one. This is what I used to learn the brachial plexus (see attached). I think visualizing the muscle is helpful for me. That way, if you can visualize the origin & insertion you can pretty much deduct the action. As for innervation, just learn 'em.

Good luck!

 

[D1224]

Thanks for the advice!

 

[RunnerGirl30]

Go to you tube and type in "Brachial Plexus made ridiculously simple" There are 5 parts to it, and this guy is awesome. He is a doctor...but I think he made this when he was in med school. He teaches you some great mnemonics for the brachial plexus and helps you remember which nerves innervate the different areas of the upper extremity. I'm in PT school now...and we just had our first exam. This really helped with the BP. Good luck!

 

[D1224]

Thank you runnergirl, I have it down now 🙂 any tips on remembering all the ligaments and joints of the upper limb? Mostly the ligaments are hard for me to memorize, there's so many.

 

[swetadpt]

Brachial Plexus is indeed a tough part. What I did when I was in school was to separate the muscles which are supplied by the same nerve supply. After you are done with this, take the book of Grey's anatomy and learn the position of each and every muscle where they are place. That would make it a lot easy to visual the roots and distribution of the nerves.

 

[swetadpt]

Before getting thorough with the ligaments you should be thorough with the anatomical position of the bone in the body. Ligaments are normally attach form one bone to the other or are within the same bone. I used B.D Chaurasia human anatomy book. I tried all different ones but this one is the simplest one. I will post you the link where you can buy it.
http://medicaldentalbooks.blogspot.com/2012/01/b-d-chaurasias-human-anatomy-flash.html

 

[swetadpt]

You can try ebookee.com they normally keep the ebooks for free. you can also try torrentz.com

 

[rangardrum]

Repetition, videos, drawings, writing, talking it out, etc. For me, it's helpful to hit material from many different angles while putting lots of time into it.

 

[D1224]

Thanks swetadpt and rangardrum, I finished Anatomy on the 18th and passed! thank goodness ha.