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...
Patients with neck pain have difficulty with making a fist, especially a tight fist secondary to pain in the wrists and fingers. To have a powerful grip while tightening the fist, the following conditions have to be present: the thumb must be able to bend across the...
Patients with neck pain often also have pain in the upper limb. In fact, they may present initially with upper limb pain and often, irritation of the brachial plexus is considered in the absence of complaints of neck pain. Whether the patient’s primary...
Peripheral nerves from the lateral cord (3 in number): Lateral head of the median nerve (C5, C6, C7 supplies the pronator teres, flexor carpi radialis, palmaris longus). The median nerve supplies sensation to the skin over the thenar eminence, lateral three and a half...
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