Med School Tomfoolery - "5 Star Nerve"

In an effort to lighten the medical school gloom and doom, I decided to write a "medical school rap." Yesterday while learning the brachial plexus, a complex bundle of nerves that split and merge and divide and rejoin multiple times in the shoulder and upper arm, I put together a little breakdown of each nerve and what it does. My glorificaiton of the brachial plexus is dubbed "5 Star Nerve," a parody of Yo Gotti's "5 Star Bitch." Go ahead and download the song if you'd like to follow along (you can also find it on YouTube), or just read it as a simple poem. One of my fellow first-years (Ronnie Milam) and I will lay down this track on mp3, hopefully sometime next week. There probably won't be a music video parody on YouTube for this one unfortunately, but no worries! The next rap remix we do (for next year's incoming class - Orientation 2010) will be video taped, edited, and special effected for your viewing pleasure. Until then you'll just have to do with this one. I'll post a link to our version on the song once it's recorded. DJ MS1 aka the White Lightning is back...


[Intro]
Yeeeeeah, yo I’m looking for a 5 star nerve you know, I’m talking about something I can break down for you real simple like, something like this…

[Chorus]
If you got that C-5,
In the arm and its high,
Innervatin up and down,
Plus other muscles on the side,
Then that’s a 5 star nerve,
Yeah it’s a 5 star nerve,
I need a 5 star nerve,
See this 5 star nerve…

[Verse 1]
Yo you gotta start with them roots, C-5 to T-1,
And you’ll end up with the branches when it’s all said and done,
Man it sounds really tough, why learn the brachial plexus?
So if you’re at the beach, spittin game, then you know the nerve to flex it!
So after these roots combine into three little chunks,
You got the superior, and the middle, and inferior trunks,
C-5 and 6 merged, so do T-1 and C-8,
But C7 stayed alone, not gonna to help them innervate,
Now the trunks split up, making 6 small divisions,
3 on the top and 3 more in the posterior positions.
The 2 anteriors all combine, and all the posteriors do too,
As they run down your arm, you can feel em coursin through you (YOU!)

[Chorus 2x]

[Verse 2]
We done roots, trunks, divisions, now we onto them cords,
Keep payin close attention, cuz you’ll find this on the Boards,
Look for the lateral on the outside, and the medial on the in,
The posterior’s in the back, and if you see it with a pin,
Then the axillary artery must be sitting in betweens,
Holdin on them cords like some Skinny tight jeans.
All three cords split in 2, then they branch into five,
Its musculocutaneous nerve that makes your upper arm thrive,
the axillary nerve hits the delts and teres minor,
while the radial helps extend your arms like a recliner,
Median gets forearm flexors and the muscles of the thumb,
And the intrinsic hand connects with C-8 and T-1 (ULNER!)

[Chorus 2x]

[Verse 3]
Now that’s the basic structure, but there’s more branching on the side,
Let’s start back at the top, and down the plexus we’ll slide,
Our first little break comes off the C-5 root,
The levator and the rhoms get that dorsal scap chute,
Then the long thoracic nerve roots from C-5, 6, and 7,
Breathing life in front serratus like the Spirit from Heaven,
The suprascapular nerve comes off the superior trunk,
and walks it out on both spinati like my boy DJ Unk,
The thoracodorsal nerve comes off the posterior cord,
So my lats extend my arms to 10 and 2 on my Ford,
Medial and lateral pectoral, you know what they serve,
And that’s five star rap, about some five star nerves!

[Chorus 3x]

[Outro]
Annnnnnnnd done.