How to memorize arteries of forearm

[Lopyswine]

---

Members don't see this ad.

ok,
can someone explain a way to memorize the arterial supply for the forearm muscles?

The nerves are easy, however I am getting tripped up on the arteries...

edit:

Any tricks for memorizing origins and insertions would be much appreciated.

 

[supernareg]

repition, just keep looking at the book, and try visualizing the paths/names in ur mind, then when u cant, look at the picture again, then close the picture and visualize...

repeat till ur able to see it clearly

 

[CardiacIntensivist]

I agree with repetition but instead of beginning with visualizations in your mind, draw it out first. Use a dry erase board and draw all those branches out. First try with help. Then try without help (only look at an atlas if you are stuck). When you can finally do it without help on that day, stop studying that area, then come back to it the next day and try to draw it out without your atlas again. When you become comfortable with being able to draw it, then just visualize it in your head. It doesn't take as much time as it sounds. This was the process I used to learn all of the vasculature for Gross Anatomy.

 

[swim2006]

ok,
can someone explain a way to memorize the arterial supply for the forearm muscles?

The nerves are easy, however I am getting tripped up on the arteries...

edit:

Any tricks for memorizing origins and insertions would be much appreciated.

Well all of the extensors originate on the the lateral epicondyle (they are also on the posterior side) . All of the flexors originate on the medial epicondyle (they are on the anterior side). This is true for all but 2 muscles I think.

 

[Dirt]

Well all of the extensors originate on the the lateral epicondyle (they are also on the posterior side) . All of the flexors originate on the medial epicondyle (they are on the anterior side). This is true for all but 2 muscles I think.

Yeah the forearm Os are pretty easy considering there are only 2.

For arteries just learn to draw them, this works for just about all the arteries in the body.

 

[howelljolly]

draw them on your own arm, look at it every once in a while. do that a few times, and you'll never forget the anatomy.

 

[eagle34]

For me, it works best if I keep looking at the arteries in a cadaver. Just keep going through the arteries, and the branches, and that way, you can visualize it in your head...axillary to brachial to radial and ulnar, etc.

 

[Depakote]

quiz yourself in the cadaver, draw them out a few times. repetition.

 

[shreypete]

drawing + looking at the cadaver + using Rohen's photgraphic atlas + figuring out some Mnemonics (there's a site called mnemonics.com or something...check it out coz they have some awesome acronyms for remembering all this stuff) = VOILA!!!!!

 

[newbie1kenobi]

draw them on your own arm, look at it every once in a while. do that a few times, and you'll never forget the anatomy.

Just don't forget to remove the drawings during exams or practicals...

 

[Guile]

Get a large stack of scratch paper.

Buy a pack each of cheap red, blue, and black pens.

Draw, draw, and draw some more. Remember that relationships are the most important part of anatomy. Which is anterior, posterior, lateral, medial, etc. That's how most things are identified--not by their absolute position.

 

[linktim]

I agree with Guile, though you must know that is not the worst of it, if you are in either anatomy or neuroanatomy/neural science, you are going to have to know useless crap like nerve root (in addition to blood supply) for conditions like waiter's tip /claw hand/ raised middle finger (the last one was a joke anyhow you get the picture). Just make yourself get used to it, spend more and more time, that is all you can do to survive.

The silver lining is that you have to remember this crap one and a half times in your life ( the half being the usmle.....maybe). After that the only
thing you have to remember is radial artery ulnar artery and the antibrachial M for blood draw.