Wrist
Provocative Tests
Tendons
Nerves
Potpourri
100

Most common fracture to the carpal bones

What is the scaphoid

100

Test for DRUJ instability

What is ballotment test/piano key test

100
Deformity caused when the terminal extensor tendon is ruptured
What is Mallet Finger
100

What nerve can be irritated with lateral epicondylitis

What is the radial nerve

100
Condition caused from a contracture of palmar fascia
What is Dupuytren's Disease
200
The two most commonly dislocated carpal bones
What are the scaphoid and lunate
200

This nerve is irritated when you provide tinels over the radial wrist along 1st dorsal compartment

What is superficial branch of radial nerve

200
Two most important annular pulleys to prevent bowstringing
What are the A-2 and A-4 pulleys?
200
Ulnar nerve provides sensory to which portion of which digits
What are the small finger and ulnar side of ring finger
200

which finger is the best finger to lose if you had a choice

What is the index finger

300
Tendon that travels through Lister's tubercle
What is the Extensor Pollicis Longus (EPL)
300
One way to test for compression of this nerve is to have the patient hold his/her elbow in a flexed position for a minute. A positive test involved numbness/tingling at of the ulnar side of ring and small finger.
What is the ulnar nerve.
300
Tendon involved with Jersey Finger
What is FDP (flexor digitorum profundus)
300
Nerve associated with claw hand deformity
What is the ulnar nerve
300
Collagen is produced at a rapid rate in this phase of wound healing
What is Fibroplasia
400

Disease name for avascular necrosis of the scaphoid

What is Preiser Disease

400
Test is performed by applying axial compression and adduction of the 1st metacarpal on the trapezium
What is the CMC grind test.
400
Flexor tendon zone once called "No Man's Land."
What is Zone II
400

Nerve involved in Saturday Night Palsy

What is the radial nerve (PIN)

400
This is a chronic inflammatory disease of the synovium
What is Rheumatoid Arthritis
500

How many bones are within the wrist and hand

what is 27 bones

500
Dynamic instability between the scaphoid and the lunate is positive in this test
What is Watson's Test
500
Tendon that is the primary wrist extensor and most commonly involved with lateral epicondylitis
What is ECRB (Extensor Carpi Radialis Brevis)
500

The inability to adduct your small finger to ring finger

What is Wartenberg's Sign?

500
This position of the hand involves IP extension, wrist extension, thumb extension and MCP flexion
What is the safe position (also called the intrinsic plus position)
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