Hand

Actions & innervation of:

  • Abductor pollicis brevis
  • Flexor pollicis brevis
  • Opponens pollicis

Actions & innervation of:

  • Abductor digiti minimi
  • Flexor digiti minimi
  • Opponens digiti minimi
  • Their constituents and the territories supplied
  • The clinical implications of injury to the arches

Digital nerves

Ulnar & median nerves: territories supplied and the particular importance of the recurrent branch of the median nerve

Surface anatomy of the digital nerves as they enter and supply each digit in relation to injury and anaesthetic field blockade
Surface anatomy of hand

  • derivation from profundus tendons
  • Anatomical attachments
  • Nerve supply and actions
  • derivations and grouping into palmar and dorsal groups
  • The actions of each group
  • Nerve supply

Appreciation of the disposition of the tendons within flexor sheaths in terms of infection in the thenar or midpalmar spaces and the risks to the lumbrical canals

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