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Wrist and Hand Palpation
Bony
- Radial Styloid
- Scaphoid
- Lunate
- Lister's Tubercle
- Triquetrium
- Pisiform
- Trapezium
- Trapezoid
- Capitate
- Hook of Hamate
- Ulnar Styloid
- Metacarpals
- Phalanges
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Wrist and Hand Palpation
Soft Tissue
- Ulnar A.
- Radial A.
- Palmaris Longus Tendon
- Carpal Tunnel Region
- Thenar Eminence
- Hypothenar Eminence
- Palmar Aponeurosis
- Tissue around PIP
- Tissue around DIP
- Distal Tufts
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Wrist and Hand ROM
- Wrist Flexion: 80*
- Wrist Extension: 70*
- Ulnar Deviation: 30*
- Radial Deviation: 20*
- Finger Abduction
- Finger Adduction
- Thumb Flexion
- Thumb Extension
- Finger Flexion
- Finger Extension
- Finger Opposition
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Tinel's Wrist Sign
- Positive: reproduction of pain, tenderness and/or paresthesia in the median nerve distribution area (thumb,2nd,3rd, and lateral half of the 4th digit)
- Indicates: Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
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Phalen's and Reverse Phalen's a.k.a. Prayer Sign
- Positive: reproduction of pain, tenderness and/or paresthesia in the median nerve distribution area (thumb,2nd,3rd, and lateral half of the 4th digit)
- Indicates: Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
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Finkelstein's Test
- Positive: pain distal to the radial styloid
- Indicates: stenosing tenosynovitis of the abductor pollicis longus and extensor pollicis brevis tendons (DeQuervain's Dz)
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Bunnel-Littler Test
- Positive: 1) flexion of the PIP can't be achieved 2) flexion of the PIP can be achieved
- Indicates: 1) joint capsule contracture 2) tight intrinsic muscles
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