thursday lecture Flashcards
Flexor Retinaculum
- spans area between pisiform, hamate, scaphoid, and trapezium
- transforms carpal arch into a tunnel
- Serves as attachent for thenar and hypothenar muscles
- helps hold down the flexor tensons (keeping things stable)
Guyon’s Canal
- where the ulnar nerve and artery run
- on ulnar side of the wrist
- Transverse carpal ligament and volar carpal ligament protect the nerve and artery
- frequent site of nerve entrapment
Palmar Fascia
- continuation of deep fascia
- thick, tendinous, triangular
Fibrous digital sheaths
synovial sheaths that enclose the flexor tendons as they pass along the palmar aspect of each digit
Metacarpophalangeal joint (MCP)
- Condyloid synoival joint
- heads of metacarpals with base of proximal phalanges
- joint capsule enclosing each joint
Metacarpophalangeal joint ligament
Collateral ligament
- passes posterior to joint for flexion and extension
- taut in 70-90 degrees of flexion (on slack at any less then these degrees)
Motions of the metacarpophalangeal joint
flexion extension abduction adduction circumduction of digits 2-5
Blood supply to the metacarpophalageal joint
deep digital arteries arising from superfical palmar arches
Interphalangeal joints
- hinge synovial joint
- heads of phalanges with bases of the more distal phalanges
- motion: flexion and extension
- blood supply: digital arteries
PIP and DIP joint ligament
-lateral and accessory collateral ligaments
(taut in 25 degrees flexion)
Carpometacarpal joint (CMC)
- thumb
- saddle synovial joint
- base of 1st metacarpal with trapzium
- capsule is loose
- 5 ligaments
the 5 ligaments of the CMC joint
- Radial and Ulnar collateral
- anterior and posterior oblique
- intermetacarpal
motions of the thumb
abduction adduction extension flexion opposition repositions
Thumb Metacarpophalangeal joint
- hinge joint
- resembles IP joint
- flexion and extension
- has collateral and palmar ligaments
Thenar Muscles
- under the thumb
- Abductor Pollicis Brevis
- Flexor Pollicis Brevis
- Opponens Pollicis
Opponens Pollicis origin
flexor retinaculum
Opponens Pollicis insertion
lateral side of 1st meetacarpal
Opponens Pollicis innervation
Recurrent branch of median nerve
Opponens Pollicis action
Oppose thumb
Abductor Pollicis brevis origin
flexor retinaculum (in the web of the thumb)
Abductor Pollicis Brevis insertion
lateral side of base of proximal phalanx of thumb
Abductor Pollicis Brevis innervation
Recurrent branch of median nerve
Abductor Pollicis Brevis action
abducts the thumb
Flexor Pollicis Brevis origin
flexor retinaculum
Flexor Pollicis Brevis insertion
lateral side of basse of proximal phalanx of thumb