Forearm and Hand Flashcards
What are the functions of the hand
- Grasp
- Sensation for touch
- Communicagtion during expression
The ______ side of the palm: Skin tighter because of fat pads underneath the skin and the thicker dermis; Many sweat glands, but no hair or sebaceous glands
The ______ side of the hand:
Loose skin; Also has hair
Volar (palmar) surface; dorsal of hand
Lateral volar aspect of palm; 3 muscles involved in movement of thumb
Thenar eminence
Medial volar aspect of palm; 3 muscles involved in movement of little finger
Hypothenar eminence
What bones doe the radius and ulna always articulate with?
Scaphoid and lunate
What are the are the components of the radiocarpal joint?
- Radius and articular disc Carpal bones: - Scaphoid - Lunate - Triquetrum during hand adduction
What carpal bones of the radiocarpal joint are not included in the synovial capsule?
- Triquetrum
2. Pisiform
What type of joint is the radiocarpal joint? What are the actions?
Condyloid type synovial (biaxial); Flexion/extension, Abduction/adduction, Circumduction
What are in the superficial layer of the hand, lateral to medial?
- Flexor carpi radialis
- Palmaris longus
- Flexor digitorum superficialis
- Flexor carpi ulnaris
What are in the deep layer of the hand, proximal to distal?
- Flexor digitorum profundus
2. Flexor pollicis longus
Joint between the proximal and distal rows of carpal bones; Part of wrist flexion/extension occurs at this joint; Can evaluate by stabilizing radiocarpal or intercarpal joint and looking at movement
Inter carpal joint
What type of joint is the intercarpal joint?
Arthrodial (gliding/planar) joints
What type of joint is the carpal-metacarpal joint of the thumb?
Saddle-type synovial join
What are the carpal-meta carpal joints for fingers 2-5?
Planar type synovial joint
What joint type are the metacarpophalangeal joints?
Condyloid synovial joint
What joint type are the interphalangeal joints?
Hinge-type synovial joints
In the carpal arch, the lateral pillar of the arch is made of? the medial pillar is made of?
- Ridge of the trapezium
- Scaphoid;
- Hook of the hamate
- Pisiform
Holds the carpal arch in place (keeps it from flattening); attachment sites are lateral pillar and medial pillar; concave anteriorly
Flexor retinaculum
AKA transverse carpal ligament
What is superficial to the flexor retinaculum?
- Palmaris longus muscle
- Ulnar nerve and blood vessels
- Branch of median nerve that supplies the skin of the proximal palm
What goes through the flexor retinaculum?
- Flexor carpi radialis – through the flexor retinaculum to 2nd and 3rd metacarpal bones
- Flexor carpi ulnaris – merges into the flexor retinaculum to attach to pisiform, hamate and 5th metacarpal