How to remember the Brachial Plexus: YOU YOUNG MERMAIDS LINE UP IN FRONT OF MY ULTRA TRIDENT

Draw the plexus first using the story:

Poseidon called all the mermaids around and said You Young Mermaids, Line Up in front of my ULTRA Trident
Once they had amassed he then yelled out Robert Taylor Drinks Cold Beer
YOU YOUNG

Poseidons ULTRA TRIDENT

MERMAIDS

(ULTRA (NOTE UTLRA in reality))

LINE UP in front of

add 3 lines on top, 3 lines on bottom

So now we have two things left to do- Label the regions and divisions and of
course the names of the nerves (see next page).
NOTE*** Story goes ULTRA Trident, but the spelling will be UTLRA.
So the UTLRA Trident is as follows:
U= Upper Subscapular Nerve
T= Thracodorsal Nerve
L=Lower Subscapular Nerve
R= Radial Nerve
A = Axillary Nerve
ULTRA Trident is BEHIND THE PLEXUS, thus forming the POSTERIOR Division
of the Brachial Plexus.
So now you have drawn the Brachial Plexus, use Robert Taylor Drinks Cold Beer which
gives us Roots, Trunks, Divisions, Cords, and Branches
* For the DIVISIONS: note that the initial mnomic has ..Line Up IN FRONT of
Poseidens ultra trident. So just like the story, the ULTRA Trident is BEHIND THE
PLEXUS, thus forming the POSTERIOR Division of the Brachial Plexus.
Story for all the nerve names that come off the Brachial Plexus:
So all the mermaids went and decided to get high, but getting high is only for Towelie:

Nemonic is: LSD Made Many Mermaids Undergo Mass Misery

Starting off with the 3 branches that you added on top they are LSD
The 3 branches that you added on the bottom are Made Many Mermaids (MMM)
The three Anterior branches Undergo Mass Misery (UMM)
L=Lateral Pectoral Nerve
S= Suprascapular Nerve
D= Dorsal Scapular Nerve
M=Medial Pectoral Nerve
M=Medial Pectoral Cutaneous Nerve
M=Medial Antebrachial Cutaneous Nerve
U=Ulnar Nerve
M=Median Nerve
M=Musculocutaneous Nerve

*****FLIP PICTURE ON SIDE TO GET BELOW*****

LSD MMM UMM
U = Upper Subscapular
T= Thoracodorsal
L= Lower Subscapular
R=Radial
A=Axillary
L= Lateral Pectoral
S= Suprascapular
D= Dorsal Scapular
M=Medial Pectoral
M=Medial Brachial Cutaneous
M=Medial Antebrachial Cutaneous
U= Ulnar
M= Median
M= Misery
***The LONG THORACIC nerve comes
off of the Roots of C5, C6, &C7. (it is not
labeled or in this picture)

NERVE
U = Upper Subscapular
T= Thoracodorsal
L= Lower Subscapular
R=Radial
A=Axillary
L= Lateral Pectoral

MUSCLES
SUBSCAPULARIS
LATISSIMUS DORSI
SUBSCAPULARIS AND TERES MAJOR
POSTERIOR COMPARTMENT OF BRACHIAL AND ANTE.
DELTOID AND TERES MINOR
PECTORALIS MAJOR AND MINOR

S= Suprascapular
D= Dorsal Scapular

INFRASPINATUS & SUPRASPINATUS

LEVATOR SCAPULAE, RHOMBOID MAJOR AND MINOR

M=Medial Pectoral
M=Medial Brachial Cutaneous
M=Medial Antebrachial Cutaneous

PECTORALIS MAJOR AND MINOR

cutaneous
cutaneous

U= Ulnar
M= Median
M= Musculocutaneous

Anterior Antebrachial compartment and some of hand

Anterior Antebrachial compartment and some of hand
Muscles of the anterior Antebrachial compartment

So how do we know which nerves go to which muscles in the Antebrachium and Hand?
Remember: LOAF

ALL ANT COMP. OF

ANTEBRACHIUM &
RADIAL OF FLEXOR
DIGITORUM PROFUNDUS

Antebrachium

THE 1 & EXCEPTIONS

FLEXOR CARPI ULNARIS
ULNAR OF FLEXOR
DIGITORUM PROFUNDUS

1 muscles
Median Nerve

1st & 2nd

Lumbricals
Opponens Pollicus
Abductor Pollicus Brevis
Flexor Pollicus Brevis

6 muscles

Ulnar Nerve

Hand

ALL THE REST OF

MUSCLES OF THE HAND
NOT INNERVATED BY THE
MEDIAN NERVE

1/2 LOAF

SO.
1. YOU YOUNG MEMMAIDS LINE UP IN FRONT OF MY UTLRA TRIDENT
2. ROBERT TAYLOR DRINKS COLD BEER
3. LSD MADE MANY MERMAIDS UNDERGO MASS MISERY
4. LOAF

This is not my imagination running wild. It is adapted from my previous anatomy

teachers cool antics for learning the brachial plexus and arm innervations.
Lifted from:
Dr. Mark Nielson
University of Utah