Anatomy & Bones
How many carpal bones are found in the wrist?
What is 8
This wrist movement bends the palm toward the forearm.
What is wrist flexion?
This common wrist injury can result from falling on a hyperextended wrist.
What is a wrist sprain?
This injury occurs when a blow to the fingertip damages the extensor tendon, leaving the fingertip unable to straighten.
What is mallet finger?
This condition causes swelling over the point of the elbow, often following a direct blow.
What is olecranon bursitis?
How many metacarpal bones are found in one hand?
What is 5
This forearm movement turns the palm upward.
What is supination?
This overuse injury causes pain during wrist use and tenderness over an involved tendon.
What is wrist tendinitis?
This injury is also known as a boxer's fracture and commonly affects the fifth metacarpal.
What is a metacarpal fracture?
Also known as tennis elbow, this condition involves repetitive microtrauma at the extensor muscle attachments on the lateral epicondyle.
What is lateral epicondylitis?
How many phalanges are in the fingers and thumb of one hand combined?
What is 14?
What two movements occur at the elbow's hinge joint?
What are flexion and extension?
This condition involves compression of the median nerve and may cause tingling, numbness, and thumb weakness.
What is carpal tunnel syndrome?
This injury occurs when the flexor digitorum profundus tendon pulls away from its insertion, often while grabbing an opponent's jersey.
What is jersey finger?
Also known as golfer's elbow, this condition involves pain near the medial epicondyle and is associated with forceful wrist flexion.
What is medial epicondylitis?
Name the two bones that articulate with the humerus at the elbow.
What are the radius and ulna?
Name the two major superficial forearm muscles that flex the wrist: one is associated with the radius and the other with the ulna.
What are flexor carpi radialis and flexor carpi ulnaris?
A painful lump that often appears on the back of the wrist and may feel soft or rubbery is called this.
What is a wrist ganglion?
This thumb injury is a sprain of the ulnar collateral ligament at the MCP joint.
What is Gamekeeper's thumb?
An athlete reports tingling in the fourth and fifth fingers after an elbow injury. Which nerve may be involved?
What is the ulnar nerve?
This carpal bone is commonly injured after a fall on an outstretched hand and is located in the anatomical snuff box.
What is the scaphoid?
This forearm muscle is located on both the anterior and posterior sides of the forearm but functions as a flexor.
What is the brachioradialis?
This fracture occurs near the distal end of the radius after a fall on an outstretched hand and may produce a silver fork deformity.
What is a Colles' fracture?
This finger deformity involves rupture of the extensor tendon over the middle phalanx, resulting in PIP flexion and DIP extension.
What is boutonniere deformity?
After an elbow dislocation, what is the immediate management priority described in the PowerPoint?
What is immobilization and referral to a physician for reduction?