The thumb has no lumbricales, its flexor sheath has only three pulleys, and there is only one flexor tendon within the sheath rather than two.

Physically SpeakingDr. Mark McDonald This week we are going to discuss a very complex condition that is called the extensor tendon laceration of the hand or thumb. The extensor tendons raise and ...

Numerous tendons pass across the wrist to the thumb. Two of these tendons, the extensor pollicis brevis (EPB) and the abductor pollicis longus (APL), help spread and extend the thumb away from the ...

The former are known as extensor tendons while the latter are called flexor tendons. An injury to your finger, wrist or hand can cause damage to the flexor tendons and cause difficulty in bending ...

To accomplish this the slips of the sublimis tendon of the ring finger were inserted into the head of the 1st metacarpal and base of the proximal phalanx. Fair opposition between the thumb, index ...

Stenosing tenosynovitis, also known as trigger finger, occurs when the flexor tendon becomes inflamed and swollen, making it harder for it to travel through the A1 pulley in the hand.

Joel Embiid (left knee injury management) and Paul George (left finger extensor tendon injury) participated in the Sixers’ Monday morning practice according to head coach Nick Nurse, who added ...