Bones & Bony Landmarks
This bony landmark is the attachment for the common flexor tendon:
What is the medial epicondyle?
This nerve is located within the carpal tunnel and may be compressed by the 9 other structures within the carpal tunnel:
What is the median nerve?
This muscle, located on the anterior arm, has two heads and a distal common tendon that attaches at the radial tuberosity:
What is biceps brachii?
The articulation between the two phalanges of the 1st digit is called:
interphalangeal joint
When using the ASIA to test for spinal cord injury levels, you find your patient is able to do each of the motions you test until you ask them to abduct their fingers. You suspect the injury is at the level of:
T1
This carpal bone, at the base of the 3rd metacarpal, is the axis (fulcrum) for measuring ROM of radial deviation:
What is the capitate bone?
Your patient has an intravenous (IV) catheter located at the cubital region of their upper extremity. You suspect the IV catheter was inserted into which blood vessel?
What is the median cubital vein?
This muscle attaches from the lateral epicondyle to the base of the 3rd metacarpal and is most commonly affected by lateral epicondylitis:
What is the extensor carpi radialis brevis muscle?
This articulation, between the scapula and the ribs (thorax), provides increased motion to the shoulder complex, but is not considered a true joint:
What is the flexor carpi ulnaris?
This bony landmark is the attachment point for the short head of the biceps brachii, the pectoralis minor, and the coracobrachialis muscles:
What is the coracoid process (of the scapula)?
This artery, located lateral to the flexor carpi radialis tendon, is commonly used to take pulse at the wrist?
What is the radial artery?
This muscle helps your 4 your old patient extend their digits 2-5 to give you a 'high five.'
What is the extensor digitorum muscle?
This ligament is composed of two parts (the trapezoid ligament and the conoid ligament) and runs from the coracoid process to the clavicle:
What is the coracoclavicular ligament?
At the pediatric clinic, you are playing 'go fish' with your patient. With their palm facing down, they grasp the card and then use this motion to flip the card to the face-up position:
What is supination?
This bony landmark is where you apply upward resistance when testing the strength of scapular depression:
The musculocutaneous nerve dives into the coracobrachialis muscle to supply motor to the muscles of the anterior arm and continues to supply sensation to the forearm as the:
What is the lateral antebrachial cutaneous nerve?
These muscles have a proximal attachment on the flexor digitorum profundus tendons and a distal attachment on the extensor expansion at the proximal phalanges:
What are the lumbrical muscles?
The uniaxial elbow joint, which allows flexion and extension, is describe as being this joint shape:
What is a hinge joint?
After hurting their finger on the playground, you notice a student on your caseload has drooping of the distal phalanx of their index finger and they are unable to extend it. You suspect this condition:
What is mallet finger?
This bone, located within the snuff box, is the most commonly fractured carpal bone in many sports, such as baseball and hockey:
What is the scaphoid bone?
This nerve comes off the C5, C6, C7 nerve roots and travels to the supply motor to the serratus anterior muscle:
What is the long thoracic nerve?
This muscle of the thumb has innervation by the (deep branch of the) ulnar nerve:
Adductor pollicis muscle
This pulley is located at the volar plate of the metacarpophalangeal joint and is most commonly involved when an individual has trigger finger:
Your patient wants to flex their shoulder to 90 degrees, what is the ratio of glenohumeral to scapulothoracic motion?
70 degrees of glenohumeral motion to 20 degrees of scapulothoracic motion.
(First 30 is only GH; remaining 60 is 2GH:1ST, so 40GH:20ST; so total is 70GH to 20ST)