Palpation Mod 4 Flashcards
What attaches to Pisiform?
Flexor carpi ulnaris and abductor digiti minimi muscles
FCU and ABDM
Where is the Pisiform bone?
Proximal row of the wrist (carpus)
What landmarks can you use to find the Pisiform?
Flexor crease, Slide to pinky,
When you flex the wrist what happens to the Pisiform?
Becomes more mobile (Less with Extension More rigid)
What attaches to the hook of hamate?
Flexor Retinaculum,Flexor Digiti Minimi Brevis, Abductor Digiti Minimi Muscle
What landmarks can you use to find the Hamate?
Pisiform and draw a line across the palm towards index finger base
How can you find the Trapezium? (Bone)
Locate Scaphoid (Under thumb) slide towards thumb
What does the Trapezium articulate with? (Bone)
Articulates with Scaphoid, Trapezoid, 1st &2nd Metacarpal Bones,
What bone is distal to scaphoid?
Trapezium
What articulates with the scaphoid?
Radius, lunate, trapezium, and trapezoid bone
What ligaments attach to the Scaphoid?
Radial collateral ligament, scapholunate ligaments, scaphotrapezial and scaphotrapezioid ligaments, and the palmar radiocarpal ligament,
Scaphoid is on what side?
Radial
The main contents of the anatomical snuffbox are?
Abductor Pollicis Longus (APL), Extensor Pollicis Longus (EPL), Scaphoid, Trapezium Bone, (Radial Side So Styloid Process) Cephalic vein, radial Artery, Radial Nerve
How can you find the Scaphoid? (Bone)
Styloid process of radius, Slide distally,
What are the attchments of the Bicep Brachii?
Long Head: Supraglenoid tubercle to Radial Tuberosity
Short Head: Ciricoid Process to Radial Tuberosity
Innervation and Blood to Bicep Brachii?
Musculocutaneous (C5-6)
Brachial, Anterior Circumflex Humeral
Actions of Biceps?
Supination, Forearm flexion at elbow,
Coricobrachialis (O.I)
Coracoid process to Medial Humerus Abbducts