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Wrist Flashcards

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What are some common injuries that may occur at the wrist?

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  • Contusions
  • Sprains
  • Triangular fibrocartilage complex
  • Fractures
  • Dislocations
  • Ganglion
  • Overuse injuries and conditions
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What can cause a wrist contusion?

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  • Compressive forces

- Result from being struck by sport equipment

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What can cause a distal radio-ulnar and radio-carpal joints sprains?

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  • Fall on an outstretch arm
  • Rotary forces
  • Abnormal ranges of motion
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What can a sprain of the distal radio-ulnar or radio-carpal joints affect?

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  • Ligamentous tissues

- Capsular tissues

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How can an injury to the triangular fibrocartilage complex occur?

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  • Fall on an outstretched arm
  • Rotary stress (extension and ulnar deviation)
  • Excessive range of motion
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Why is the triangular fibrocartilage complex susceptible to injury?

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Activates with upper extremity in a closed kinetic chain position

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What can cause a fracture to the distal radius?

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Fall on an outstretched arm

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What can cause a fracture to the scaphoid and hamate?

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  • Fall on the outstretched arm

- Shearing forces

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What can cause a dislocation to the distal radio-ulnar joint?

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  • Excessive extension

- Pronation and/or supination

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What can a dislocation to the distal radio-ulnar joint be associated with?

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  • Fracture

- Soft tissue injury

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Where can ganglion cysts appear?

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Either the dorsal or palmar surface of the wrist

- Dorsal is more common

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What can cause a ganglion cysts?

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  • A sprain
  • Repetitive hyperextension
  • Overload
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What can cause an overuse injury?

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  • Excessive, repetitive stress
  • Constant gripping
  • Repetitive wrist motion
  • Structural abnormalities
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What is the purpose of taping techniques?

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  • 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
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What is the purpose of a circular wrist tape technique?

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  • Used with contusions, sprains, fractures and dislocations
  • Provides mild support
  • Limits range of motion
  • Anchor protective padding
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What is the purpose of a figure-of-eight tape technique?

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  • Used with contusions, sprains, TFCC injury, fractures and dislocations
  • Provides mild to moderate support
  • Limits range of motion
  • Anchors padding
17
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What is the purpose of a fan tape technique?

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  • Used with sprains, TFCC injury, fractures and dislocations
  • Provides moderate support
  • Limits excessive flexion and extension
18
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What is the purpose of the strip tape technique?

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  • Used with sprains, TFCC injury, fractures and dislocations
  • Provides moderate support
  • Limits excessive flexion and extension
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What is the purpose of the X tape technique?

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  • Used with sprains, TFCC injury, fractures and dislocations
  • Provides moderate support
  • Limits excessive flexion and extension
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What is the purpose of a wrist semirigid cast?

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  • Used with sprains, TFCC injury, fractures and dislocations
  • Provides maximum support
  • Limits wrist range of motion
  • Only applied by qualified health care professional
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What is the purpose of a posterior splint?

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  • Used with sprains, TFCC injury, fractures, dislocations and overuse injuries and conditions
  • Immobilizes the wrist and hand
22
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What is the purpose of wrapping techniques?

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  • Control swelling
  • Provide compression
  • Anchor protective padding and braces
  • Treat contusions, sprains, TFCC injury, fractures, dislocations, overuse injuries and conditions
23
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What is the purpose of the hand and wrist compression wrap?

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  • Used with contusions, sprains, dislocations and ganglion cysts
  • Controls mild, moderate or severs swelling and inflammation
  • Provides pressure
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What is the purpose of the figure-of-eight wrap?

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  • Used with contusions, sprains, TFCC injury, fractures, dislocations and overuse injuries and conditions
  • Provides compression and mild support
  • Anchors padding
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What is the of bracing techniques?

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  • Provide support, compression and immobilization
  • Correct structural abnormalities
  • Limit excessive range of motion
  • Prevent and treat injuries and conditions
26
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What is the purpose of custom-made splints/braces?

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  • Provides moderate support and immobilization
  • Limits range of motion
  • Corrects structural abnormalities
27
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What is the purpose of a splint?

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  • Used with sprains, TFCC injury, fractures, dislocations, overuse injuries and conditions and postoperative procedures
  • Provide support and immobilization
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What is the purpose of padding techniques?

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  • Provide protection
  • Absorb shock
  • Lessen compressive and repetitive stresses
  • Prevention and treatment of conditions and injuries
29
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What is the purpose of cast padding?

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  • ## Used with fractures, dislocations or postoperative procedures with approval from a physician
30
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What are NCAA and NFHS?

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Closed-cell, slow-recovery foam or similar material of at least 1/2 inch thickness

31
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What is the purpose of custom-made padding?

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  • Used with contusions
  • Absorbs shock
  • Provides additional protection to prevent and treat injury
32
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What is the purpose of donut pads?

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  • Used with contusions, fractures and ganglion cysts

- Lessen amount of compression over an area (disperse stress outward)

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