Muscles of the Hand Flashcards
What can the muscles acting on the hand be divided into?
Two groups, extrinsic and intrinsic muscles
Where are the extrinsic hand muscles located?
In the anterior and posterior compartment of the forearm
What are the extrinsic hand muscles responsible for?
Control crude movements
Produce forceful grip
Where are the intrinsic muscles of the hand located?
Within the hand itself
What are the intrinsic muscles of the hand responsible for?
Fine motor functions of the hand
What are the intrinsic muscles of the hand?
Adductor pollicis Interossei Thenar muscles Lumbricals Hypothenar muscles
What are the thenar muscles?
Three short muscles, the oppens pollicis, abductor pollicis brevis, and flexor pollicis brevis
Where are the thenar muscles located?
At the base of the thumb
What do the muscle bellies of the thenar muscles produce?
A bulge, known as the thenar eminence
What are the thenar muscles responsible for?
The fine movements of the thumb
What innervates the thenar muscles?
The median nerve
What is the largest of the thenar muscles?
Opponens Pollicis
Where does the oppenens pollicis lie?
Underneath the other two thenar muscles
What is the innervation of the opponens pollicis?
Recurrent branch of the median nerve (C8, T1)
What is the arterial supply of the opponens pollicis?
Superficial palmar branch of radial artery
What is the action of the opponens pollicis?
To oppose thumb, it draws 1st metacarpal medially to centre or palm and rotates it medially
Where is the abductor pollicis brevis found?
Anteriorly to the opponens pollicis, and proximal to the flexor pollicis brevis
What is the innervation of the abductor pollicis brevis?
Recurrent branch of medial nerve (C8, T1)
What is the arterial supply of the abductor pollicis brevis?
Superficial palmar branch of radial artery
What is the main action of the abductor pollicis brevis?
Abducts thumb, helps oppose it
Where is the flexor pollicis brevis found?
The most distal of the thenar muscles
What does theflexor pollicis brevis have?
Superficial head and deep head
What is the innervation of the superficial head of theflexor pollicis brevis?
Recurrent branch of median nerve (C8, T1)
What is the innervation of the deep head of theflexor pollicis brevis?
Deep branch of ulnar nerve (C8, T1)
What is the arterial supply of theflexor pollicis brevis?
Superficial palmar branch of radial artery
What is the main action of theflexor pollicis brevis?
Flexes thumb
What do the hypothenar muscles produce?
The hypothenar eminence
What is the hypothenar eminence?
A muscular protrusion on the medial side of the palm, at the base of the little finger
What are the hypothenar muscles?
Abductor digiti minimi
Flexor digiti minimi brevis
Opponens digiti minimi