Monday, November 27, 2017

Answers to questions on the cervico-thoracic junction:

1) What is the nerve root that exits the cervico-thoracic junction? Answer: C8
2) What are the parameters where paresthesia is felt when the nerve-root that exits the cervico-thoracic junction is aggravated?  All the skin on little finger and slightly past the wrist into the forearm.
3) Which movement is most affected by compression of the cervico-thoracic nerve root? Shaking hands as gripping is the movement most affected due to the loss of power to the small muscles of the hand.
4) Which of the following tissues attach to the C7 vertebra?  All except Levator Scapulae

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