1. What muscles are innervated by the obturator nerve?
2. How is the obturator nerve commonly injured?
3. What is the presentation of obturator neuropathy?
Answers:
1. Pectineus, adductor brevis, adductor longus, adductor magnus, obturator externus, gracilis. It also has a cutaneous branch.
2. It is injured by compression from a pelvic fracture or hernia within the obturator foramen.
3. Symptoms include hip adduction weakness and decrease in sensation along the medial thigh.
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