Name that Syndrome
Inability to perform the “okay” sign is a key feature of this nerve compression syndrome.
What is Anterior Interosseous Syndrome?
Tapping over the carpal tunnel to reproduce tingling or numbness in the hand is known as this sign.
What is Tinel’s Sign?
This canal is formed by the pisiform and the hook of the hamate and houses the ulnar nerve.
What is Guyon’s Canal?
This surgical technique involves the removal of scar tissue or other compressive material from around a nerve to restore function.
What is Neurolysis?
After injury, peripheral nerves typically regenerate at this approximate rate per day, though recovery can vary based on factors like the severity of damage and location of injury.
What is 1 millimeter per day?
This condition is caused by compression of the axillary nerve within a small anatomical space in the shoulder.
What is Quadrilateral Space Syndrome?
This test involves flexing the wrists for 60 seconds to reproduce symptoms of carpal tunnel syndrome.
What is Phalen’s Test?
This fibrous band of the flexor carpi ulnaris is a common site of ulnar nerve compression.
What is Osborne’s Band?
When performing a carpal tunnel release, this structure should be carefully preserved to avoid compromising the sensation to the thenar eminence.
What is the Palmar Cutaneous Branch of the Median Nerve?
This phenomenon occurs when nerve compression at two separate sites along a nerve exacerbates symptoms.
What is the Double Crush Phenomenon?
This syndrome involves compression of the superficial branch of the radial nerve, causing numbness and tingling over the dorsum of the thumb and hand.
What is Wartenberg syndrome?
This test, which can help distinguish radial sensory nerve compression from De Quervain’s tenosynovitis, involves reproducing pain when the thumb is tucked into the fist and the wrist is ulnarly deviated.
What is Finkelstein’s Test?
This fibrous structure runs between the biceps tendon and the pronator teres and can compress the median nerve in pronator syndrome.
What is the Lacertus Fibrosus?
This anatomical landmark, drawn from the apex of the interdigital fold between the thumb and index finger toward the ulnar side of the hand, parallel with the middle crease of the hand, is used in surgery to identify the recurrent motor branch of the median nerve during carpal tunnel release.
What is Kaplan’s Cardinal Line?
This EMG finding, characterized by spontaneous firing of individual muscle fibers, typically appears weeks after nerve injury and indicates ongoing denervation.
What are fibrillations?
This syndrome is commonly caused by compression of the radial nerve in the spiral groove, often due to prolonged arm positioning while asleep.
What is Saturday Night Palsy?
Applying pressure over the carpal tunnel for 30 seconds is known as this test
What is Durkan’s Test?
The posterior interosseous nerve can be compressed by this tendinous arch of the supinator muscle.
What is the Arcade of Frohse?
During ulnar nerve transposition, this nerve must be protected to avoid sensory complications.
What is the Medial Antebrachial Cutaneous Nerve (MABC)?
This is the mildest form of nerve injury, characterized by temporary loss of motor and sensory function without axonal damage, often caused by compression.
What is Neuropraxia?
This condition, also known as handcuff neuropathy, results from compression of the radial nerve and presents as numbness over the dorsal aspect of the hand.
What is Cheiralgia Paresthetica?
Weakness in the adductor pollicis muscle, often seen in ulnar nerve palsy, is demonstrated by this sign.
What is Froment’s Sign?
Compression of the radial nerve can occur due to a group of recurrent radial vessels known by this term.
What is the Leash of Henry?
This surgical technique, used to treat cubital tunnel syndrome, has been demonstrated to reduce intraneural pressure in the ulnar nerve in all degrees of elbow flexion and has the lowest published recurrence rate.
What is sub-muscular transposition of the ulnar nerve by musculofascial lengthening technique?
This pioneering surgeon is renowned for her contributions to nerve surgery and is credited with performing the first successful nerve allotransplantation in the United States.
Who is Dr. Susan E. Mackinnon?