Wrist, Hand, and Fingers

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Wrist, Hand, and Fingers

• Sports Medicine I

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Anatomy

• Site of most minor, yet irritating conditions
• Wrist and hand contain 27 bones and 38 joints
• 8 carpal bones

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Carpal Bones

• Scaphoid
• Lunate
• Triquetral
• Pisiform
• Trapezium
• Trapezoid
• Capitate
• Hamate

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Metacarpals and Phalanges

• Metacarpals (5)
• Phalanges (5)
• Distal
• Middle
• Proximal

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Joints

• Radiocarpal
• Radioulnar
• Intercarpal
• Carpometacarpal
• Metacarpophalangeal (MCP)
• Interphalangeal
• Distal (DIP)
• Proximal (PIP)

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Forearm Flexors and Pronators

• Flexor Carpi Radialis
• Flexor Carpi Ulnaris
• Flexor Pollicis longus
• Flexor digitorum Profundus
• Flexor digitorum superficialis
• Palmaris longus

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Forearm Extensors and Supinators

• Extensor Digitorum
• Extensor Carpi Radialis Brevis
• Extensor Carpi Radialis Longus
• Extensor Carpi Ulnaris
• Extensor Pollicis Longus

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Movement Terms

• Wrist
• Flexion
• Extension
• Radial deviation
• Ulnar deviation
• Supination
• Pronation

• Fingers
• Flexion
• Extension
• Abduction
• Adduction
• Opposition