Musculoskeletal Conditions

A patient is complaining of numbness/tingling in the thumb, index, middle, and radial half of ring fingers, as well as an aching pain in their forearm. They also say that these symptoms seem to go away during the night. What do you suspect they have?
Click the card to flip 👆
1 / 13
Terms in this set (13)
A patient is complaining of numbness/tingling in the thumb, index, middle, and radial half of ring fingers, as well as an aching pain in their forearm. They also say that these symptoms seem to go away during the night. What do you suspect they have?
Pronator Teres Syndrome
A patient comes and displays difficulties extending their wrist, MCPs, and thumb. What may they have?
Radial Nerve Palsy (Saturday night palsy)
A patient comes in with atrophy of the ulnar side musculature of the hand. You suspect Guyon's canal syndrome. What test do you administer?
Tinel's Test with positive sign at Guyon's canal
A patient complains of numbness and tingling along the ulnar side of their forearm/hand, pain during elbow flexion, decreased power grip, and a positive tinel's sign at the elbow. What do they most likely have?
Cubital Tunnel Syndrome
A person is diagnosed with Saturday Night Palsy. What type of splint will you make?
Dynamic extension splint.
What type of injury causes Ape hand deformity?
Distal Median Nerve injury
Benediction Sign
High lesion of median nerve
A patient has an ulnar nerve laceration. What deformities do you expect to see?
claw hand, flattened metacarpal arch, positive froment's sign
Intervention for median nerve injury
Dorsal protection splint with 30 deg flex of wrist if low lesion, and 90 deg elbow flexion if high lesion.
Ulnar nerve injury splint
MCP flexion block splint
Intervention for CRPSStress loading (scrubbing/carrying activities), edema control, AROM to affected joints, splinting, modalities. Try to avoid PROM, joint mobilization, dynamic splinting, or casting.Conservative intervention for De Quervain'sThumb Spica Work/activity modification Ice Massage over radial wrise Gentle AROM of wrist/thumbStructures affected by De Quervain'sAPL EPB