UE Bony Palpation Flashcards
Sternal Notch
:)
SC Joint
helps to protract/retract
saddle type
Clavicle
:)
Acromion
Deep
AC joint
plane synovial joint
follow clavicle
Corocoid process
deep
usually senstive
Spine of scapula
lines up with T3
Supraspinous Fossa
above spine
Subscapular Fossa
It is ant scapula
But palpate from posterior and have them inhale
Inferior angle of scapula
T7
Superior angle of scapula
T2
Medial border of scap
:)
Lateral border of scap
:)
Greater and lesser tubercles
Intertubercular groove
Find intertubercular groove first
Internally and externally rotate to feel biceps tendon
Olecranon
elbow
Radial tuberosity
where biceps inserts
Coronoid process
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Lateral and medial supracondylar ridge
move from epicondyles
Radial head
have them pronate and supinate
Distal radioulnar joint
go on dorsum of wrist
Listers Tubercle
Proximal to the lunate
Scaphoid
Off of the radial styloid
Lunate
Go to hole and then have them flex writst
Triquetrum
Deep to pisiform
Pisiform
dorsal side
Trapezium, Trapezoid, Capitate, Hamate
:)
Hook of hamate
distal to pisiform
Guyon’s canal or ulnar tunnel
between hamate and pisiform
Metacarpals
:)
Carpal - metacarpals
:)
Meta-carpal phalangeal
:)
condyloid
ext/flex/adduct/abduct
Proximal interphalangeal joint
:)
hinge
flex/ext
Distal interphalangeal joint
:)
hinge
flex/ext