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| peanut shaped bone, most commonly fractured carpal, floor of the anatomical snuffbox |
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| carpal is the most frequently dislocated |
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| knobby carpal; located on the palmar surface anterior to the triquetrum |
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| carpal articulates with the first metacarpal |
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| trapezium (rhymes with thumb) |
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| articulates with the second metacarpal |
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| goniometry landmark for wrist flexion & extension |
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| articulates with the fourth and fifth metacarpals; contains a hook or small protuberance on palmar surface |
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| proximal bones of the wrist from medial to lateral |
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| pisiform, triquetrum, lunate, scaphoid |
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| distal bones of the wrist from lateral to medial |
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| trapezium, trapezoid, capitate, hamate |
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| 5 metacarpals, 5 proximal phalanges, 4 middle phalanges, 5 distal phalanges |
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| carpal tunnel is formed by |
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| flexor retinaculum, carpal bones |
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| flexor retinaculum is formed by |
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| transverse and palmar carpal ligaments |
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| flexor retinaculum is composed of |
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| thick, fibrous, connective tissue |
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| transverse carpal ligament runs from |
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| scaphoid and trapezium to the triquetrum, pisiform, and hamate |
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| palmar carpal ligament runs from |
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| radial styloid to the ulnar styloid |
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| four different structures that pass through the carpal tunnel |
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| four tendons of the flexor digitorum superficialis, four tendons of flexor digitorum profundus, flexor pollicis longus, median nerve |
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| carpal tunnel syndrome cause |
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| impingement of the four structures that run through the carpal tunnel (particularly the median nerve) |
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| relieve carpal tunnel syndrome |
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| carpal tunnel release to relieve surgically the pressure on these structures |
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| stabilizes the posterior wrist and thumb muscles; located from ulnar styloid to the radius. |
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