Elbow
Humeroulnar, Humeroradial, Radioulnar
What are the three articulations of the elbow?
It involves a transverse fracture of the radius.
What is a Colles' fracture?
ulnar collateral ligament structure damaged in in the thumb.
What is gamekeepers thumb?
The clavicle and scapula make up this joint
What is the shoulder girdle?
located between the skin and the olecranon process of the ulna.
Where is the olecranon bursa of the elbow?
The mechanism of injury is typically a fall in which the elbow is in either an extended or flexed position.
What is the mechanism of injury for a posterior dislocation of the elbow?
Extensor pollicis braves and abductor policies longus injury
What is de Quervain's disease?
True or False: the most common form of wrist sprain is the result of forced hyperextension.
True
Infraspinatus, Supraspinatus, Teres minor, ad subscapularis
What is the rotator cuff group?
located within a region at the base of the thumb known as the anatomical snuff box?
Where is the Scaphoid located?
1)Gross deformity of the elbow; abnormal positioning of the forearm bones behind the distal end of the humerus. 2)severe pain and total dysfunction of the elbow 3) possible neuralgic symptoms
What are the signs and symptoms of a dislocation of the elbow?
a herniation of the synovium surrounding the tendons at the wrist.
What is a condition known as ganglion?
injury charactized by severe forced finger flexion. Involvesproximal interphalangeal joint of the fingers.
What is boutonniere deformity?
True or False: The most common type of GH joint dislocation is a posterior dislocation.
False
Anatomical structures within the wrist that form the tunnel of Guyon
What are the pisiform bone and the nook of the hamate bone?
True or False: The ulnar nerve is the most commonly damaged nerve in a dislocation of the elbow.
True
most commonly discloated carpal.
What is the lunate?
tearing away a finger tendon from its attachment. the tendon of the flexor digitorum profundus is torn away from its attachment on the distal phalanx.
What is Jersey finger?
Injury presents with an abnormal slope at the shoulder joint and normal contour is lost. One arm will appear longer.
What is the signs and symptoms of a GH joint dislocation?
Passes through the Tunnel of Guyon
This condition involves the reaction of the forearm musculature to a lack of blood supply. If left uncorrected it becomes a permanent deformity.
What is Volkmann's contracture?
falling on an outstretched hand.
Injury to finger while the tip of the finger receives a blow at the time the finger is extending from a flexed position.
What is mallet finger?
holds the biceps (long head) tendon in the bicipital groove.
What is the transverse humeral ligament?
To what structure the glenoid labrum is attached
What is the glenoid fossa?