Wrist and Hand
Injuries
Injuries
This injury damages the 4th or 5th metecarpal. Often occurs due to punching or hitting a hard object
What is Boxer's fracture?
Can support the immune system against some communicable diseases
What is Vaccination
Helps the body perform specific functions and regulate metabolic processes
What is Vitamins?
Movement of any extremity away from the midline of the body
What is Abduction?
A Cut with a sharp Object
What is Incision?
Sprain to MCL, also known as Skier's thumb
What is Gamekeeper's Thumb?
Happens when human papillomavirus(HPV) enters a small cut or lesion in the skin
What is Plantar Warts?
Makes up 57% of total body weight
What is water?
Movement of an extremity toward the midline of the body
What is Adduction?
Pointed object driven deep into the tissue
What is Puncture?
Common in wrist and hand, especially at abductor pollicies longus and extensor pollicies brevis tendons
What is Tendinitis?
They create infection if the immune system is unable to fight them off
What is Microorganisms?
Failure to replace the fluids lost through sweating or other normal body processes
What is Dehydration?
Motion of bending a joint
What is Flexion?
Significant force that displaces a bone from its joint
What is Disloation?
Flexor tendon is torn from the bone at the distal phalange, results in inability to flex tip of the finger.
What is Jersey Finger
Distinguishings feature is swelling of the glands below and in front of the ear.
What is Mumps?
Main source of fuel for the body.
What is Carbohydrate?
Action of straightening of a joint
What is Extension?
Fracture when a Ligament or tendon pulls a portion of bone away from its attachment
What is Avulsion Fracture?
Pocket of fluid that developes within the sheath in the wrist
What is Ganglion cyst?
What is German Measles (and or Rubella)?
Basic components are amino acids and are used to form new tissue and repair damaged tissue.
What is Protein?
Movement of foot away from body; opposite of dorsiflexion
What is Plantar Flexion?
Fracture that occurs around the eye. Comminuted fractur to the orbit.
What is Blowout Fracture?