Wrist Flashcards
What are some common injuries that may occur at the wrist?
- Contusions
- Sprains
- Triangular fibrocartilage complex
- Fractures
- Dislocations
- Ganglion
- Overuse injuries and conditions
What can cause a wrist contusion?
- Compressive forces
- Result from being struck by sport equipment
What can cause a distal radio-ulnar and radio-carpal joints sprains?
- Fall on an outstretch arm
- Rotary forces
- Abnormal ranges of motion
What can a sprain of the distal radio-ulnar or radio-carpal joints affect?
- Ligamentous tissues
- Capsular tissues
How can an injury to the triangular fibrocartilage complex occur?
- Fall on an outstretched arm
- Rotary stress (extension and ulnar deviation)
- Excessive range of motion
Why is the triangular fibrocartilage complex susceptible to injury?
Activates with upper extremity in a closed kinetic chain position
What can cause a fracture to the distal radius?
Fall on an outstretched arm
What can cause a fracture to the scaphoid and hamate?
- Fall on the outstretched arm
- Shearing forces
What can cause a dislocation to the distal radio-ulnar joint?
- Excessive extension
- Pronation and/or supination
What can a dislocation to the distal radio-ulnar joint be associated with?
- Fracture
- Soft tissue injury
Where can ganglion cysts appear?
Either the dorsal or palmar surface of the wrist
- Dorsal is more common
What can cause a ganglion cysts?
- A sprain
- Repetitive hyperextension
- Overload
What can cause an overuse injury?
- Excessive, repetitive stress
- Constant gripping
- Repetitive wrist motion
- Structural abnormalities
What is the purpose of taping techniques?
- Limit excessive range of motion
- Support musculature and soft tissue
- Immobilize the wrist and hand
- Anchor protective padding and braces
- Treatment of sprains, TFCC injury, fractures, dislocations, and overuse injuries and conditions
What is the purpose of a circular wrist tape technique?
- Used with contusions, sprains, fractures and dislocations
- Provides mild support
- Limits range of motion
- Anchor protective padding
What is the purpose of a figure-of-eight tape technique?
- Used with contusions, sprains, TFCC injury, fractures and dislocations
- Provides mild to moderate support
- Limits range of motion
- Anchors padding
What is the purpose of a fan tape technique?
- Used with sprains, TFCC injury, fractures and dislocations
- Provides moderate support
- Limits excessive flexion and extension
What is the purpose of the strip tape technique?
- Used with sprains, TFCC injury, fractures and dislocations
- Provides moderate support
- Limits excessive flexion and extension
What is the purpose of the X tape technique?
- Used with sprains, TFCC injury, fractures and dislocations
- Provides moderate support
- Limits excessive flexion and extension
What is the purpose of a wrist semirigid cast?
- Used with sprains, TFCC injury, fractures and dislocations
- Provides maximum support
- Limits wrist range of motion
- Only applied by qualified health care professional
What is the purpose of a posterior splint?
- Used with sprains, TFCC injury, fractures, dislocations and overuse injuries and conditions
- Immobilizes the wrist and hand
What is the purpose of wrapping techniques?
- Control swelling
- Provide compression
- Anchor protective padding and braces
- Treat contusions, sprains, TFCC injury, fractures, dislocations, overuse injuries and conditions
What is the purpose of the hand and wrist compression wrap?
- Used with contusions, sprains, dislocations and ganglion cysts
- Controls mild, moderate or severs swelling and inflammation
- Provides pressure
What is the purpose of the figure-of-eight wrap?
- Used with contusions, sprains, TFCC injury, fractures, dislocations and overuse injuries and conditions
- Provides compression and mild support
- Anchors padding
What is the of bracing techniques?
- Provide support, compression and immobilization
- Correct structural abnormalities
- Limit excessive range of motion
- Prevent and treat injuries and conditions
What is the purpose of custom-made splints/braces?
- Provides moderate support and immobilization
- Limits range of motion
- Corrects structural abnormalities
What is the purpose of a splint?
- Used with sprains, TFCC injury, fractures, dislocations, overuse injuries and conditions and postoperative procedures
- Provide support and immobilization
What is the purpose of padding techniques?
- Provide protection
- Absorb shock
- Lessen compressive and repetitive stresses
- Prevention and treatment of conditions and injuries
What is the purpose of cast padding?
- ## Used with fractures, dislocations or postoperative procedures with approval from a physician
What are NCAA and NFHS?
Closed-cell, slow-recovery foam or similar material of at least 1/2 inch thickness
What is the purpose of custom-made padding?
- Used with contusions
- Absorbs shock
- Provides additional protection to prevent and treat injury
What is the purpose of donut pads?
- Used with contusions, fractures and ganglion cysts
- Lessen amount of compression over an area (disperse stress outward)
