Muscles Of The Hand Flashcards
Hand consist of:
- Carpus (wrist)
- Metacarpus (hand proper)
- Digits (fingers)
Fingers names lateral to medial
Pollex (thumb), indicis (index), middle, ring, digiti minimis (pinky)
Anterior side of hand
Volar region (palm)
Posterior side of hand
Dorsum (back of hand)
Axis of hand
3rd metacarpal through middle finger
Abduction and adduction of fingers are relative to:
Axis of the hand
Middle finger has…abductor and …adductor
2 abductors and no adductor no
Polex has…to rest of fingers
90 degree rotation
Movements of pollex are defined at…to movements of other fingers
Right angles
Finger movements are at…joints
Metacarpophalangeal joints (MCP)
Polex movements are at…joints
Carpometacapus joints (CMC)
Carpal arch is formed by:
Carpal bones and flexor retinaculum
What passes through the carpal tunnel?
- 4 flexor digitorum superficialis tendons
- 4 flexor digitorum profundus tendons
- 1 flexor pollicis longus tendon
- Median nerve
Groups of intrinsic muscles of the hand
- Thenar (inferior to thumb)
- Hypothenar (inferior to pinky)
- Central
Thenar muscle group includes:
- Abduction pollicis brevis (APB)
- Flexor pollicis brevis (FPB)
- Opponens pollicis (deepest)