Patients with neck pain can have pain in the fingers with difficulty in finger extension (finger straightening). Extension of the finger joints (proximal and distal interphalangeal joints) is performed by the lumbricals and interossei muscles. Extension of the knuckle...
Patients with neck pain due to cervical nerve root irritation may have hand pain significant enough that they may have difficulty making a fist. The joints of the fingertips may have a hard time bending. This most peripheral joint of the fingertips is known as the...
Patients with neck pain due to cervical nerve root irritation may have accompanying wrist, hand and finger pain. Pain and spasm or stiffness in the flexor digitorum superficialis muscle will lead to difficulty in making a fist. Both the flexor digitorum superficialis...
Patients with neck pain due to cervical nerve root irritation can have pain in the hands and difficulty with manipulation of fine objects such as turning a key, cutting meat, picking up small objects or holding onto flat and thin objects. They may have difficulty...
Patients with neck pain can present also with pain in the hand and fingers. They may have difficulty with making a fist with the thumb in flexion. This movement is needed for turning a key. The flexion of the fingers is performed the flexor digitorum profundus and...
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