Palpation Flashcards
Medial tubercle of calcaneus
- Lay their foot with toes point up
- Go to the heel and come down until you feel where the heel drops down a bit
Metatarsal heads
- Right where the toes end at the top part
- DO this for all toes
Base of 5th Metatarsal
- Go down the sideline of the pinky toe until you feel hard bony part around the middle
Navicular
- Go down the inside line of the big toe about halfway until you find a bony lump
ATFL
- With patients toes pointing up
- Just above the maleolis in the foot on the pinkie side
CFL
- With patients toes pointing up
- Just sideways of the maleolis in the foot on the pinkie side
PTFL
- With patients toes pointing up
- Just underneath the maleolis in the foot on the pinkie side
Anterior Inferior Tibiofibula Ligament (AITFL)
- With patients toes pointing up
- Quite a bit above the maleolis around the middle
Deltoid ligament complex
- On the big toe side of the maleolis above the maleolis slightly towards the leg
Ankle Joint line
- Get them to plant their foot on the bed / 80 degrees of knee flexion
- Palpate around joint line of the foot go around the whole foot
Achilles mid portion and insertion
- Patient in prone with feet coming off the bed
- Find the little cord part right on the end of the foot and palpate until it inserts into calcaneus
Tibial tuberosity
- Patient in supine with knee flexed
- The front of the inferior part of their patella
Inferior pole of patella
- Inferior part of patella
Patella tendon
The patella
Knee Anterior joint line
- Joint line of patella coming around laterally and medially
Quads tendon
- Tendon that touches with your quads part of patella
Medial femoral epicondyle
- Medial part of knee
MCL
- Runs down medial part of knee in diagnol line
Lateral femoral epicondyle
- Lateral part of knee
LCL
- Runs down lateral part of knee in diagnol line
Hamstring tendons
- Patient lying in prone
- Palpate around hamstrings
Heads of Gastrocnemius
- Palpate calf
Pes anserine
- Look for bony lump below patella near tibiofemoral joint
Greater trochanter
- Patient in supine with legs straight
- Come down the outside of their hip around where their shorts line is
Iliac crest
- The top part of their hip
- Best to do in standing
ASIS
- Come around the front of their iliac crest at top of their hip
Pubic synthesis
- Get them to work down from their belly button until they feel bony pelvis part
Ischial tuberosity
- Patient lying in prone
- The bit just under their bum and push it down and up
Greater and lesser tubercle of humerus
- By the humeral head on the lateral side under bony bit
Acromioclavicular joiint
- Come down to the big bony part at end of the clavicle
Coracoid process and pec minor
- Fatty bit under the end bit of clavicle
Supraspinatus muscle belly
- Slightly on the fatty bit behind the humeral head towards the top
Infraspinatus muscle belly
- Slightly on the fatty bit behind the humeral head towards the very middle
Medial border scapula
- Palpate behind where on the medial border of that big muscle that comes out in massages
Bicipital groove
- Grab their humeral head area with one hand and let thumb rest in natural area should be by bicipital groove
Anterior joint line of shoulder
- joint line of shouldeer from armpit
Radial head
- On right side of elbow joint line just slightly above it
Medial epicondyle (humerus)
- Medial side part of elbow with elbow slightly flexed
Lateral epicondyle (humerus)
- Lateral side part of elbow with elbow slightly flexed
Olecranon
- Elbow slighttly flexed just slightly above the bony elbow bit at the bottom towards the hand.
Common Extensor Origin
- Elbow slightly flexed in pronation and palpate above the bony elbow bit towards joint line
Common flexor origin
- Elbow slightly flexed in supination and palpate medial side towards hand bit above joint line
Ulnar styloid
- bony bit on pinkie side at the end of wrist towards the backside.
Radial styloid
- Bony bit at end of wrist under thumb
First carpometacarpal joint
- Hand laying flat by the fatty bit of bottom of thumb near veins
Pisiform
- Bony bit right at end of hand joint line under 4th finger (2nd last before pinkie)
Distal & proximal interphalangeal joints
- The bony bits on the fingers with distal being end bits and proximal being 2nd bits.
