Chapter 12: Wrist and Hand

Jersey Finer

A tear of the flexor tendon at the distal phalax

Mallet finger

An avulsion fracture of the distal phalanx

A ____ fracture involves the radius and ulna and causes the forearm to bend into extension

Colles' fracture

A common tendinitis that occurs at the thumb is referred to as

De Queruains Tendinitis

which muscles are on the POSTERIOR SURFACE o forearm

Extensor muscles

The _____ stabilizes the carpal bones

Flexor Retnaculum

Which muscles are on ANTERIOR SURFACE of forearm

Flexor muscles

Injury to the medial collateral ligament of the thumb is referred to as

Gamekeepers thumb

Scaphiod

Located in the anatomical snuffbox

The _____ is the carpel bone located directly proximal to the third metacarpal

Lunate

Difference between Mallet finger and Jersey finger

Mallet - fingertip receiving impact Jersey - Flexor tendon tears from fingertip

Which nerve is involved with carpal tunnel syndrome

Median Nerve

The knuckles of the hand are the _____ Joints

Metacarpal phalangeal

Boutonniere deformity

Occurs at the proximal interphalangeal joint

Finger are called what and how many of them

Phalanges 14 of them

Lunate

The most commonly dislocated carpal bone

Which cartilage structure is located between the ulna and carpal bones & can be injured when an athlete sprains wrist

Triangular fibrocatilage complex (TPCC)

The ligament that attaches the ulna to the triquetrum and pisiform bones is the

Ulnar collateral ligament

Treat fractured scaphoid bone like

splint wrist and refer to athlete physician