Monday - Severson - palm Flashcards
1
Q
What is a disease that has to do with a shortening, thickening, and fibrosis of the palmar fascia and aponeruosis?
A
Dupuytren contracture.
2
Q
Clinical test for carpal tunnel syndrome?
A
Phalen’s maneuver. Hold the backs of your hands together.
3
Q
Which intrinsic hand muscles does the median nerve innervate? what innervates the rest?
A
Median nerve - 3 thanar muscles, 1st and 2nd lumbricals (the most radial umbricals)
Everything else is the ulnar nerve.
4
Q
What adducts fingers of the hand?
A
Palmar interossei
5
Q
What abducts fingers of the hand?
A
Dorsal interossei
6
Q
What muscles in the forearm (i know this isn’t palm, but this is imortant.) are innervated by the ulnar nerve?
A
Flexor carpi ulnaris and the ulnar half of the flexor digitorum profundus.
