Training – Assessment of the wrist and hand
In this week’s workshop, we practiced assessing the major pathologies that can affect the wrist and hand. These included:
• Tennis elbow (ECRB tendinopathy)
• Posterior interosseous nerve entrapment (as a result of irritation of the supinator muscle)
• Golfer’s elbow (pronator teres tendinopathy)
• Arthritis of the 1st CMC joint
• Scapho-lunate Dissociation
• Lunotriquetral (LT) Dissociation
• Scaphoid Fractures
• Distal Radioulnar Joint (DRUJ) Instability
• TFCC (Triangular Fibrocartilage Complex) Tear
• De Quervain’s Tenosynovitis
• Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
To learn more about the assessment of these conditions and the specific tests used, download the notes from the workshop
Download the workshop notes
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