WHF Flashcards
Mechanical purpose of shoulder, elbow, WFH
shoulder - mobility and gross placement of hand
elbow - stability
WHF - strength and precision
How may carpals, metacarpals, and phlanges
8 carpals, 5 metacarpals, 14 phalanges
name the carpals
scaphoid, lunate, triquetrum, pisiform, trapezium, trapezoid, capitate, hamate
1st Metacarpal lines up with
Trapezium
2nd metacarpal lines up with
trapezoid
3rd MC lines up with
Capitate
4 and 5 MC lines up with
Hamate
Pisiform floats on
triquetrum
commonly fractured
scaphoid
commonly dislocated
lunate
proximal articulating surfaces of long bones
concave
distal articulating surfaces of long bones
convex
purpose of sesamoid bones on first MC
improve mechanical line of pull of the flexor pollicis brevis, abductor pollicis brevis, adductor pollicis muscles
Distal radioulnar joint - degrees of freedom - movements
ulnar head/ulnar notch
1 degree of freedom
pronation and supination
Radiocarpal joint
ellipsoid joint 2 degrees of freedom flexion and extension radial and ulnar deviation fibrous carapl
formed by distal radius and the scaphoid and lunate
RCL
radial collateral ligament
limits ulnar deviation becomes taut when the wrist is at the extreme ranges of flexion and extension
Palmar radiocarpal ligament
controls motion and wrist stability
Dorsal radiocarpal ligament
limits flexion
TFCC
triangular fibrocartilanginous complex
- articular disc
- dissipates stress imposed on forearm during loading
- stabilizes distal radioulnar joint
Intercarpal joints
allow for gliding movements
First CMC joint
2 degrees of freedom
synovial saddle joint
flexion and extension, abduction and adduction
accessory motion: oppositiona nd reposition
CMC joints 2-4
plane synovial joint
1 degree of freedom
flexion and extension
CMC joint 5
2 degrees of freedom
flexion and extension
abduction and adduction
MCP joints
condyloid joints
2 degrees of freedom
flexion and extension
abduction and adduction
collateral ligaments at fingers
protect against valgus and varus forces
make gripping less dependent on dynamic stability
IP joints
1 degree of freedom
flexion and extension
natural position of hand
slight flexion
Extensor muscles
Extensor muscles
- location: posterolateral forearm
- 6 compartments
- radial nerve innervation
- extensor carpi radialis longus/brevis
- extensor carpi ulnaris
- extensor digitorum communis
- extensor pollicis longus
- extensor pollicis brevis
- abductor pollicis longus
- extensor indicus
- all secured by extensor retinaculum
- increase efficiency of the muscles’ pull and prevents “bow stringing” when the wrist is extended
- all secured by extensor retinaculum
Flexor muscles
Flexor Muscles -Location: anteromedial forearm -2 compartements -flexor carpi radialis, -palmaris longus (absent in 12-15% of population) -flexor carpi ulnaris -flexor digitorum superficialis -flexor digitorum profundus -flexor pollicis longus -median nerve innervation (fourth and fifth - ulnar nerve)
Palmar muscles groups
thenar central, hypothenar, adductor interosseous compartments
muscles of thenar eminence
abductor pollicis brevis, flexor pollicis brevis, opponens pollicis
muscles of hypothenar eminence
abudctor digiti minimi, flexor digiti minimi brevis, opponens digiti minimi muscles
To prevent bowstringing
series of pulleys restrain and guide the tendons
during flexion and extension of the fingers
flexor tendons require how much more excursion than extensor tendons
4x
annular pulleys
tunnels for tendons
cruciate pulleys
pliable, allow annular pulleys to move towards each other in flexion
4 Lumbrical muscles
flex MCP, extend PIP and DIP