ANATOMY OF THE HAND Flashcards
What is the carpal tunnel?
- narrow passageway on anterior portion of the wrist
- provides access to palm for tendons and the median nerve
The carpal tunnel is a narrow passageway on anterior portion of the wrist that provides access to palm for tendons and the median nerve. What tendons of which 2 flexor muscles does this allow access to?
1 - flexor digitorum profundus and extensor digitorum
2 - flexor digitorum profundus and flexor digitorum superficialis
3 - flexor digitorum profundus and extensor carpi ulnaris
4 - flexor digitorum profundus and flexor carpi radialis
2 - flexor digitorum profundus and flexor digitorum superficialis
The carpal tunnel is a narrow passageway on anterior portion of the wrist that provides access to palm for tendons and the median nerve. What are the 4 bones that line the base of the carpal tunnel. This can be remembered by the second half of the mnemonic for the carpal bone, That They Cant Handle?
- That = Trapezium
- They = Trapezoid
- Cant - Capitate
- Handle = Hamate with hook of hamate
What are the 3 basic groups of bones in the hands?
1 - carpals
2 - metacarpals
3 - phalanges (digits) (thumb is digit 1)
Label the carpal bones of the hand below:
Trapezium Trapezoid Capitate Hamate Scaphoid Lunate Triquetrum Pisiform
1 - Scaphoid 2 - Lunate 3 - Triquetrum 4 - Pisiform 5 - Trapezium 6 - Trapezoid 7 - Capitate 8 - Hamate
Using the mnemonic below, what are the 8 carpal bones of the hand?
Some Lovers Try Positions That They Can’t Handle
1 - Some – Scaphoid 2 - Lovers – Lunate 3 - Try – Triquetrum 4 - Positions – Pisiform 5 - That – Trapezium 6 - They – Trapezoid 7 - Can’t – Capitate 8 - Handle – Hamate
What 4 carpal bones are included in the proximal row? (Closest bones to the radius and ulna)
1 - Scaphoid
2 - Lunate
3 - Triquetrum
4 - Pisiform
What 4 carpal bones are included in the distal row?
1 - Trapezium (remember trapeZIUM sounds like thumb)
2 - Trapezoid
3 - Capitate
4 - Hamate
Which carpal bone is most commonly injured?
- scaphoid
- largest bone in proximal row and articulates with the radius
Which 4 bones make up the base of the carpal tunnel? The mnemonic below may help:
That
They
Cant
Handle
1 - Tipping = trapezium
2 - Trains = trapezoid
3 - Can = capitate
4 - Hurt = hamate
The roof of the carpal tunnel is formed by what fibrous band?
- flexor retinaculum
There are 2 muscles, each of which have 4 tendons that pass through the carpal tunnel at the wrist. Which 2 muscles are these?
1 - flexor digitorum profundus and flexor digitorum superficialis
2 - flexor carpis ulnaris and flexor digitorum superficialis
3 - flexor digitorum profundus and pronator teres minor
4 - flexor carpis ulnaris and flexor policies longus
1 - flexor digitorum profundus and flexor digitorum superficialis
Which tendon for the thumb passes through the carpal tunnel?
1 - abductor pollicis brevis
2 - flexor pollicis longus
3 - flexor pollicis brevis
4 - extensor pollicis longus
2 - flexor pollicis longus
- remember it runs with the FDP and FDS in anterior compartment
Which nerve passes through the carpal tunnel?
1 - median nerve
2 - ulnar nerve
3 - radial nerve
4 - axillary nerve
1 - median nerve
There are 5 joints if the hand. Label them using the labels below:
Interphalangeal Wrist Metacarpophalangeal Carpal (midcarpal) Carpometacarpal
1 - Wrist
2 - Carpal (midcarpal)
3 - Carpometacarpal (carpal to metacarpal)
4 - Metacarpophalangeal (metacarpal to phalanges)
5 - Interphalangeal (between phalangeal joints)
What type of joint is the wrist?
- synovial joint (diarthroses = freely moveable)
- specifically a condyloid joint
What bones articulate to form the wrist joint?
- radius with lunate and scaphoid
The ulnar bone does not form part of the wrist joint, instead it connects to a fibrocartilaginous ligament, called the articular disc, which then comes into contact with which 2 carpal bones?
1 - lunate and trapezoid
2 - lunate and saphoid
3 - triquetrum and lunate
4 - triquetrum and hamate
3 - triquetrum and lunate
The wrist allows 4 movements, what are they?
- flexion and extension
- adduction and abduction
Clinically adduction and abduction are not really used. What terms are used instead?
- adduction = ulnar deviation (move towards the ulnar bone)
- abduction = radial deviation (move towards the radial bone)
Which 2 forearm muscles facilitate wrist abduction (radial deviation)?
1 - Flexor carpi radialis and flexor carpi ulnaris
2 - Flexor carpi ulnaris and carpi radialis longus and brevis
3 - Flexor carpi radialis and Extensor carpi radialis longus and brevis
4 - Extensor carpi radialis longus and brevis
3 - Flexor carpi radialis and Extensor carpi radialis longus and brevis
Which 2 forearm muscles facilitate wrist adduction (ulnar deviation)?
1 - Flexor carpi radialis and flexor carpi ulnaris
2 - Flexor carpi ulnaris and extensor carpi ulnaris
3 - Flexor carpi radialis and Extensor carpi radialis longus and brevis
4 - Extensor carpi radialis longus and brevis
2 - Flexor carpi ulnaris and extensor carpi ulnaris
Which 3 muscles of the forearm facilitate flexion at the wrist?
1 - Flexor carpi radialis
2 - Flexor carpi ulnaris
3 - Palmaris Longus
Which 2 muscles of the forearm facilitate extension at the wrist?
1 - Extensor carpi radialis longus and brevis
2 - Extensor carpi ulnaris
Carpal joints are those between the carpal bones of the hand. What type of joint are these?
- synovial plane joints
- biaxial movements (amphiarthroses)
What bones make up the carpometacarpal joints?
- carpal and metacarpals
What type of joints are carpometacarpal joints, and what is the one exception to this?
- digits 2-5 are synovial plane joints
- digit 1 (thumb) is a saddle joint
What carpal bone meets the digit I (the thumb) forming a saddle joint?
- trapzIUM as it sounds like thumb
What movements are possible at the saddle joint of the thumb?
- flexion/extension
- adduction/abduction
- rotation
- circumduction
What joint and what movements are possible at the metacarpophalangeal joints?
- synovial condylar joint
- Flexion / Extension
- Abduction / Adduction
- Circumduction
- Limited rotation
What joins the metacarpophalangeal joints and ensures limited range alone, essentially they tend to move together?
- collateral ligaments
What type of joint and what movements are possible at the interphalangeal joints, both proximal and distal interphalangeal?
- PIPs = proximal interphalangeal joint
- DIPs = distal interphalangeal joint
- synovial hinge joint
- flexion/extension