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Musculocutaneous N. - ✔✔C5-C7
Coracobrachialis, biceps brachii, and brachialis muscles
Sensory Distribution: anterolateral surface of forearm
Motor features of paralysis: loss of forearm flexion when supinated,
weakened supination.
Axillary N. - ✔✔C5-C6
Deltoid, Teres minor
Sensory Distribution: lateral arm over lower portion of deltoid
,Motor features of paralysis: loss of shoulder abduction, weakened
external rotation.
Radial N. - ✔✔C5, C6, C7, C8, T1
Muscle innervation: triceps brachii, anconeus, brachioradialis, supinator,
wrist, fingers, and thumb extensors
Sensory Distribution: posterior arm, posterior forearm, and radial side of
posterior hand
Motor features of paralysis: loss of elbow, wrist, finger, and thumb
extension
Median N. - ✔✔C5, C6, C7, C8, T1
Muscle innervation: pronators, wrist and finger flexors on radial side,
most thumb muscles
Sensory Distribution: palmar aspects of thumb, second, third and fourth
fingers
,Motor features of paralysis: loss of forearm pronation, thumb opposition,
flexion, and abduction
Ulnar N. - ✔✔C7, C8, T1
Muscle Innervation: flexor carpi ulnaris, flexor digitorum profundus
(medial half), interossei, fourth and fifth lumbricals.
Sensory Distribution: fourth finger, fifth finger
Motor features of paralysis: loss of wrist ulnar deviation, weakened wrist
and finger flexion, weakened fourth and fifth finger flexion, loss of
thumb adduction, loss of most intrinsics (Claw hand)
Sciatic N. - ✔✔L4-S3
Muscle Innervation: hamstrings, adductor magnus.
Sensory Distribution: through its terminal branches of the tibial,
superficial fibular, and deep fibular nerves
Motor features of paralysis: loss of knee flexion, weak hip adduction,
loss of all muscle function distal to the knee.
, Femoral N. - ✔✔L2, L3, L4
Muscle Innervation: sartorius, quadriceps femoris, iliacus, and pectineus
Sensory Distribution: middle anterior thigh and medial thigh proximal to
the knee
Motor features of paralysis: loss of hip flexion and knee extension
Tibial N. - ✔✔L4-S3
Muscle Innervation: gastrocnemius, soleus, plantaris, popliteus, tibialis
posterior.
Sensory Distribution: posterior/lateral calf, ankle, and heel
Motor features of paralysis: loss of plantarflexion and knee flexion
Superficial Fibular (Peroneal) N. - ✔✔L5-S2
Muscle Innervation: fibularis longus and brevis
Sensory Distribution: anterior/lateral leg and ankle and most of the
dorsum of the foot
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Musculocutaneous N. - ✔✔C5-C7
Coracobrachialis, biceps brachii, and brachialis muscles
Sensory Distribution: anterolateral surface of forearm
Motor features of paralysis: loss of forearm flexion when supinated,
weakened supination.
Axillary N. - ✔✔C5-C6
Deltoid, Teres minor
Sensory Distribution: lateral arm over lower portion of deltoid
,Motor features of paralysis: loss of shoulder abduction, weakened
external rotation.
Radial N. - ✔✔C5, C6, C7, C8, T1
Muscle innervation: triceps brachii, anconeus, brachioradialis, supinator,
wrist, fingers, and thumb extensors
Sensory Distribution: posterior arm, posterior forearm, and radial side of
posterior hand
Motor features of paralysis: loss of elbow, wrist, finger, and thumb
extension
Median N. - ✔✔C5, C6, C7, C8, T1
Muscle innervation: pronators, wrist and finger flexors on radial side,
most thumb muscles
Sensory Distribution: palmar aspects of thumb, second, third and fourth
fingers
,Motor features of paralysis: loss of forearm pronation, thumb opposition,
flexion, and abduction
Ulnar N. - ✔✔C7, C8, T1
Muscle Innervation: flexor carpi ulnaris, flexor digitorum profundus
(medial half), interossei, fourth and fifth lumbricals.
Sensory Distribution: fourth finger, fifth finger
Motor features of paralysis: loss of wrist ulnar deviation, weakened wrist
and finger flexion, weakened fourth and fifth finger flexion, loss of
thumb adduction, loss of most intrinsics (Claw hand)
Sciatic N. - ✔✔L4-S3
Muscle Innervation: hamstrings, adductor magnus.
Sensory Distribution: through its terminal branches of the tibial,
superficial fibular, and deep fibular nerves
Motor features of paralysis: loss of knee flexion, weak hip adduction,
loss of all muscle function distal to the knee.
, Femoral N. - ✔✔L2, L3, L4
Muscle Innervation: sartorius, quadriceps femoris, iliacus, and pectineus
Sensory Distribution: middle anterior thigh and medial thigh proximal to
the knee
Motor features of paralysis: loss of hip flexion and knee extension
Tibial N. - ✔✔L4-S3
Muscle Innervation: gastrocnemius, soleus, plantaris, popliteus, tibialis
posterior.
Sensory Distribution: posterior/lateral calf, ankle, and heel
Motor features of paralysis: loss of plantarflexion and knee flexion
Superficial Fibular (Peroneal) N. - ✔✔L5-S2
Muscle Innervation: fibularis longus and brevis
Sensory Distribution: anterior/lateral leg and ankle and most of the
dorsum of the foot
