Wrist and Hands

Question 1

What is the wrist joint called?

Answer 1

Radio-carpal joint

Question 2

What are the carpals called?

Answer 2

So Long To Pinky Here Comes The Thumb

Schapoid 
Lumate
Triquetrum
Pisiform
(proximal row- lateral to medial)
Hamate 
Capitate 
Trapezoid
Trapezium
(Distal row- medial to lateral)

Question 3

What are the muscles that flex the wrist? (Wrist Flexors)

Answer 3

FCU+FCR
FDS
FDP
PL

Question 4

What is the muscle(s) that adducts the wrist?

Answer 4

FCU

Question 5

What is the muscle that abducts the wrist?

Answer 5

FCR

Question 6

What is the articular disc called that is between the ulna and other bones?

Answer 6

Ellipsoid joint

Question 7

Where is the midcarpal joint?

Answer 7

Between the two rows of carpal bones

Question 8

Where is the carpo-metacarpal joint? and what can it be described as?

Answer 8

Between the distal row of carpal bones and proximal end of the metacarpal bones
synovial saddle joint of the thumb

Question 9

What are the movements of the thumb?

Answer 9

Flexion 
Extension 
ABD
ADD 
Rotation 
Opposition

Question 10

What type of joint is metacarpophalangeal joint?

Answer 10

Synovial condyloid

Question 11

What type of joint is the interphalangeal joint?

Answer 11

Synovial hinge

Question 12

What is the flexor retinaculum?

Answer 12

Strong, transverse, fibrous band that confines the flexor tendons of the five fingers to the arch of the carpus which forms the carpal tunnel

Question 13

Where is the flexor retinaculum located?

Answer 13

Distal to the flexion creases in the skin of the wrist and attached laterally to the tubercles of the scaphoid and trapezium and medially to the triquetrum, pisiforma and the hook of hamate

Question 14

What makes up the carpal tunnel?

Answer 14

8 tendons

medial nerve

Question 15

How is carpal tunnel syndrome brought about?

Answer 15

Any swelling of the synovial sheath irritates medial nerve

Question 16

What forms the dorsal hood?

Answer 16

Extensor tendons

Question 17

What are the intrinsic muscles of the hand?

Answer 17

Thenar eminence
Hypothenar eminence
Intermediate

Question 18

What muscles in the hand are innervated by the radial nerve?

Answer 18

none

Question 19

What nerve innervates the thenar eminence?

Answer 19

Median

Question 20

What nerve innervates the hypothenar eminence?

Answer 20

Ulnar

Question 21

What is the palmar aponeurosis?

Answer 21

Strong triangular membrane overlying the tendons in the palm

Question 22

What are the three thenar muscles?

Answer 22

Flexor pollicis brevis
Abductor pollicis brevis
Opponens pollicis

Question 23

What are the three muscles of the hypothenar eminence?

Answer 23

Flexor digiti minimi
Abductor digiti minimi
Opponens digiti minimi

Question 24

What are the intrinsic intermediate muscles of the hand?

Answer 24

Adductor pollicis
Lumbricals
Volar interossei
Dorsal interossei

Question 25

What muscles of the hand are innervated by ulnar nerve and which by median nerve?

Answer 25

all by ulnar nerve except

2 LOAF

2 lumbricals
opponens pollicis
Abductor pollicis brevis
Flexor pollicis brevis

Question 26

What does the radial nerve innervare?

Answer 26

BEST 
Brachioradialis 
Extensors 
Supinator
Triceps