How to draw teh brachial plexus in 5 minutes

[Engin]

Hey guys,

This was sent around our class. It might be the most helpful webpage I have ever seens/utilized. Do yourself a favor and check it out. Or as my friend tony would say, it's grrrrrrrrrrrreat.

It's opens in powerpoint and in 21 slides shows how to do it. Even if you have memorized the brachial plexus, you should still check it out.

http://www.ama-assn.org/ama1/pub/upload/mm/15/brachial_plex_how_to.pdf

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[Pinkertinkle]

Nice site, but all you need to know about the brachial plexus is Erb's palsy and Klumpke's palsy.

 

[ZagDoc]

Or just... know it?

I use the *^$& out of pneumonics and stuff in med school, but the brachial plexus wasn't bad at all.

 

[SomeDoc]

Nice site, but all you need to know about the brachial plexus is Erb's palsy and Klumpke's palsy.

Don't forget the hand of benediction/pope's blessing, wrist drop, winged scapula, deltoid paralysis, saturday night palsy, and decreased elbow flexion. 😉

 

[Timmythemic22]

Wow...we all really are learning the same damn thing...or do you all go to umdnj?

 

[arsenewenger]

Wow...we all really are learning the same damn thing...or do you all go to umdnj?

Yeah...Everyone on sdn goes to UMDNJ- Newark!!!

 

[arsenewenger]

Hey guys,

This was sent around our class. It might be the most helpful webpage I have ever seens/utilized. Do yourself a favor and check it out. Or as my friend tony would say, it's grrrrrrrrrrrreat.

It's opens in powerpoint and in 21 slides shows how to do it. Even if you have memorized the brachial plexus, you should still check it out.

http://www.ama-assn.org/ama1/pub/upload/mm/15/brachial_plex_how_to.pdf

This crap is incomplete!

 

[NoktorNoL]

i thought Brachial plexus was hard until head and neck came along...

 

[notdeadyet]

It's opens in powerpoint and in 21 slides shows how to do it. Even if you have memorized the brachial plexus, you should still check it out.

http://www.ama-assn.org/ama1/pub/upload/mm/15/brachial_plex_how_to.pdf

I didn't do too deep a read on this site, but it has one of the terminal branches named "auxiliary" (I'm pretty sure it's referred to as axial or axillary, but haven't heard auxiliary before). Also, the location for the termanl branches of Ax and R are reversed. Aside from being counter intuitive when you look at a brachial plexus in dissection, it will make it impossible to use the mnemonics that folks use for this one, which usually runs M-A-M-R-U.

Caveat emptor...

 

[Cirrus83]

Well, we already had our first anatomy exam so this is a little late for me, but I looked at the PDF and I'm pretty sure there's an easier way to do it than how the PDF describes it.

Of course, this didn't stop me from totally blanking on my practical when it came to actually identifying the entire brachial plexus when it was bundled together in the posterior cervical triangle...I'd been drawing that stupid diagram so long that I totally forgot how it should look in a bundle. So much that even though the FOLLOW-UP questions to the identification all very clearly clued me in that it should be the brachial plexus, I just kept asking myself "jeez this sounds a lot like the brachial plexus, but what the hell is it?"

So, long story short, I answered all the follow-up questions correctly, except I dunno if they'll even give me credit for them seeing as how I couldn't actually identify the brachial plexus. Yes, I am a total *****.

Seriously, this is what happens to my brain under pressure lol. And of course who the hell can remember deviation instead of flexion...argh.

 

[PRIMER]

Not to be a jerk but drawing the brachial plexus shouldn't take five minutes🙂

 

[jbrice1639]

Wow...we all really are learning the same damn thing...or do you all go to umdnj?

actually, here in the midwest, we learn the midwestern body in anatomy, not the east coast body. we have the corn husk plexus in the upper extremities and the fields of wheat plexus coming from the sacrum. very different stuff for very different species of humans that are treated in the various regions where the med schools are located...

 

[necrotic brain]

Wow...we all really are learning the same damn thing...or do you all go to umdnj?

*gasp* guess what.. we do the same things here in europe 😱
medicine is a language understood by all people that learn it. why is it so surprising that we'd be learning the same thing?!

 

[madeyedhl]

nice. lol

 

[Timmythemic22]

Haters... if only you knew the bliss of smoke-stacks and having a wendy's, McDonald's and Checker's (local fast food joint) on three out of four corners down the street, you'd know why I keep my interests local!

Haters all of you!

 

[Firebird]

Not to be a jerk but drawing the brachial plexus shouldn't take five minutes🙂

I was thinking the same thing. Anatomy was my worst subject. I'm a fourth year and am very far removed from the brachial plexus. I would imagine I could draw the thing now in 30 seconds, if I was at gunpoint. But that would be about the only scenario where this skill would be useful.

 

[kdburton]

Hey guys,

This was sent around our class. It might be the most helpful webpage I have ever seens/utilized. Do yourself a favor and check it out. Or as my friend tony would say, it's grrrrrrrrrrrreat.

It's opens in powerpoint and in 21 slides shows how to do it. Even if you have memorized the brachial plexus, you should still check it out.

http://www.ama-assn.org/ama1/pub/upload/mm/15/brachial_plex_how_to.pdf

its a good file if your anatomy class asks questions about what roots, trunks, divisions, etc contribute to certain nerves. I think that the Axillary and Radial terminal branches are actually flip-flopped

 

[deleted77919]

The way I mastered the brahcial plexus was to be able to draw it . . . all of it. Every minor nerve branch and muscle innervation from the start through the fingers. Drawing that took the first 8 minutes or so on my exam, but then it made all of the questions much easier, it was like having a cheat sheet. Was definitely my easiest exam in medical school.

Can't say I remember a whole lot of that as an MSII though . . . oh well.

 

[Re3iRtH]

This crap is incomplete!

What's missing?

 

[necrotic brain]

I guess since much of the lingo is Latin, your native tongue might be closer to medspeak than ours.

There is a gross misconception between areas in the US regarding the teaching of medicine. Some people think that you learn more stuff at supposedly "better" schools.

<sarcasm>
I speak on behalf of the US when I say that our country is universally better than every other country in the world. Most of us have never lived anywhere else, but ours is the best nonetheless. Your European education must therefore be of lesser quality than ours by default.
</sarcasm>

my native language is actually english. and i never said that euro med schools were of a lesser quality than american ones. it's just odd, don't you think, that there's shock that people in different schools are learning the same freaking things.

 

[werd]

Hey guys,

This was sent around our class. It might be the most helpful webpage I have ever seens/utilized. Do yourself a favor and check it out. Or as my friend tony would say, it's grrrrrrrrrrrreat.

It's opens in powerpoint and in 21 slides shows how to do it. Even if you have memorized the brachial plexus, you should still check it out.

http://www.ama-assn.org/ama1/pub/upload/mm/15/brachial_plex_how_to.pdf

are you suggesting that you actually know tony the tiger? i hope you understand the gravity of such a claim. is it true that he actually ate frankenberry? if this is the case, you should ask him if cereal mascots really taste like their respective cereals...

 

[DoctaJay]

I just wanted to bump this for anyone who is currently doing the arm like my school. I think the principle is good, and it helps you better tweak your own system for drawing it.

 

[BrainBuff]

Not to be a jerk but drawing the brachial plexus shouldn't take five minutes🙂

Correct. If it takes you more than a minute, you do not know it. Period

 

[Pinkertinkle]

Don't forget the hand of benediction/pope's blessing, wrist drop, winged scapula, deltoid paralysis, saturday night palsy, and decreased elbow flexion. 😉

That's all bunk.