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| Patient complains of radial or dorsal wrist pain following a fall on an outstretched hand |
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| Scapholunate Dissociation |
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| Bynfalling onto the Thenar eminence the wrist is forced into hyperextension, ulnar deviation, and intercarpal supination, which forces the capitate between the scaphoid and lunate |
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| Scapholunate Dissociation |
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| Patient reports a fall on either a palmar-flexed or hyperpronated wrist, Some patients report only dorsal ulnar wrist pain and a nontraumatic history |
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Definition
| Triquetraolunate dissociation |
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| stretching or disruption of the lunotriquetral ligaments allows palmar subluxation of the lunate |
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Definition
| Triquetraolunate dissociation |
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| patients presents with a history of a fall or blow to the medial side of the hand with hyperpronation |
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Definition
| Triquetrohamate instability |
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| Ligamentous tearing disrupts the osseous couping between the hamate and triquetrum |
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Definition
| Triquetrohamate instability |
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| Patient presents with pain on the ulnar side of the wrist made worse by pronation and supination |
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Definition
| Triangular Fibrocartilage Injury |
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| a patient presents with complaint of radial wrist pain with a history of activities that require either forceful gripping with ulnar deviation or repetitive use of the thumbs |
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Definition
| de Quervain's Tenosynovitis |
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| Patient (often an athlete) presents with complaint of pain and creptius 2 inches or so above the wrist on the dorsoradial aspect. History of repeated flexion/extensio movement |
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| Seen in drummers, racquet sport athletes, and patients with RA |
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Definition
| Extensor Pollicus Longus Tendinitis |
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| Found in racquet sport athletes, rowing, golfing, and baseball. This tendon has it's own shealth separate from the extensor retinaculum and may rupture following forced supination, flexion, and unlar deviation |
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Definition
| Extensor carpi ulnaris tendinitis |
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| Patient presents with pain numbness, and tingling in the palmar surface of the thumb and the radial two and 1/2 fingers, worse at night, also has clumsiness and precision gripping |
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| Patient presents with volar forearm pain, no history of trauma, history of repetitive pronation and wrist flexion (carpenters, assembly line workers, and weight lifters |
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| Patient presents with a complaint of anterior proximal forearm pain that occured acutely after a single powerful forearm contration, or from repetitive activity |
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| Anterior Interosseous Syndrome |
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| Compression sites for this syndrome are at the flexor digitorum superficialis muscle or deep head of the pronator teres muscle |
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Definition
| Anterior Interosseous Syndrome |
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| This syndrome could be the result of the nerve beeing compressed at the following sites: Bicipital aponeurosis or the heads of pronator teres |
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| Patient presents with complaint of medial forearm pain and paresthesia into the ring and little finger, history of activities like throwing, that medially stretch the elbow |
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| This Syndrome is caused by a valgus force acting on the elbow joint. compression may be at the 2 heads of the flexor carpi ulnaris or osteophytes in the cubital tunnel |
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| Patient presents with numbness and tingline or pain into the 4th and 5th digit |
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| In this syndrome the ulnar nerve is compressed between the piiform and hook of the hamate |
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| Patient complains of dull aching pain over the lateral forearm |
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| This syndrome is caused by the nerve becoming entrapped at one of the following locations: radial head, medial edge of the ECRB, arcade of Frohse, & 2 heads of the supinator |
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| Patients complains of numbness and tingling over the dorsolateral aspect of the wrist and hand |
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Definition
| Cheiralgia Paresthetica (Wartenberg's Syndrome) |
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Term
| The cause is the superfical branch of the radial nerve becoming entrapped between the tendons of the ECRL and the brachioradialis, repetitive meovements such as pronation and supination are often the cuase |
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Definition
| Cheiralgia Paresthetica (Wartenberg's Syndrome) |
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Term
| Patient presents with pain at the anatomical snuggbox after a fall on the outstretched hand |
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Definition
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| Patient presents with pain just distal and radial to the pisiform following impact to the area froma fall, bat, racquet, or golf club |
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Definition
| Hook of the Hamate Fracture |
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Term
| Patient presents with a stiff and painful wrist, often no history of trauma |
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Definition
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| Cause is avascular necrosis of the lunate due to stress or compression fracture, repetitive minor trauma |
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| Shaft fracture of the ulna with associated dislocated radial head |
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| fractured distal radius and dislocated ulna |
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| incomplete fracture, often both raduis and ulna, young patient |
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| distal radial fracture with dorsal and radial angulation |
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| distal radial fracture with volar (palmar) angulation |
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| patient compains of dorsal wrist pain, passive dorsiflexion makes it worse, often a small tender nodule or knot |
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| tenderness is distal to the lateral epicondyle (4 fingerbreadths below) |
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Term
| symptoms are reproduced by passive or resisted elbow flexion with elbow in max flexed position |
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| Inability to pinch the tips of the thumb and index fingers together due to weakness of the Flexor policus longus and flexor digitorum profundus |
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Definition
| Anterior Interosseous Syndrome |
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Term
| Pain is reproduced with resisted thumb extension with wrist in radial deviation or with the finkelstein test |
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Definition
| de Quervain's Tenosynovitis |
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