Download Artificial Hand Questions

Follow the link on Ms. Tretten’s website to the Orthobullets website to help you answer the following
questions about the artificial hand you just created.
1. What is a volar laceration?
2. Using a sharpie, draw on the different zones of the hand.
3. What are the phases of tendon healing? Describe how many days as well as the Histology of
healing. ANSWER THIS QUESTION ON THE BACK OF THIS PAPER!
4. List the muscles AND THEIR ACTIONS (use the actions from your text book!) associated with the
tendons of the hand. ANSWER THIS QUESTION ON THE BACK OF THIS PAPER!
5. The signs and symptoms of carpal tunnel syndrome may vary among patients, but they always
result from compression of what structure in the carpal canal?
A. Median Nerve
B. Radial Artery
C. Superficial Radial Nerve
D. Ulnar Artery
E. Ulnar Nerve
6. A person carrying a soft drink in their right hand slipped on some ice and the bottle broke in their
hand. A shard (jagged piece) of glass entered the hand and severed all of the tissue from the skin
down to the metacarpal bone. The cut extended on the lateral side of the index finger, following
the proximal transverse crease, clear to the proximal portion of the head of the second metacarpal
bone. It did not extend over the third metacarpal.
The clinical manifestations were as follows:
1. The subject could not flex any part of the index finger
2. The subject had trouble abducting and adducting the index finger
3. The subject had total anesthesia on the palmar side of the index finger and the dorsal
side of the distal part of the same digit
4. There was considerable bleeding from severed vessels
Repair proceeded and required six hours of surgery.
Which of the following muscle tendons was NOT involved?
A. The flexor digitorum profundus muscle
B. The flexor digitorum superficialis muscle
C. The first dorsal interosseous muscle
D. The first lumbrical muscle
E. The second palmar interosseous muscle