#scaphoid

Anatomy Of The Hand

The hand is a complex of multiple bones of your palms and fingers. The bones in your palm are also called carpal bones. There are eight carpal bones, each with its own shape, function, and location. Within the carpal bones you have eight bones: https://teachmeanatomy.info/upper-limb/bones/bones-of-the-hand-carpals-metacarpals-and-phalanges/ Scaphoid– this bone is located in your wrist, closest…

CARPAL BONES 

Made of 2 rows of carpal bones :

Proximal (L->M) -- Scaphoid, lunate, triquetral, pisiform 

Distal (L->M) -- Trapezium, trapezoid, capitate, hamate 

MNEMONIC:

SHE LOOKS TOO PRETTY TRY TO CATCH HER:

SHE ------ SCAPHOID (Most frequently fractured carpal bone)

LOOKS -- LUNATE (most commonly dislocated carpal bone) 

TOO ----- TRIQUETRAL 

PRETTY - PISIFORM 

TRY ------ TRAPEZIUM 

TO ------- TRAPEZOID 

CATCH -- CAPITATE 

HER ------HAMMATE

SONG TO MEMORIZE CARPAL BONES: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOkT9KOU8_A

FRACTURE OF SCAPHOID 

Most frequently fractured carpal bone 

History of fall + tenderness in anatomical snuffbox 

History of fall + tenderness in anatomical snuffbox + normal x-ray (missed fracture of scaphoid) --Investigations:

In initial 24 hours - do MRI 

After 24 hours - do CT 

Well sort of - still have to wear a splint

And I had to get my scaphoid put back in and I realised her thumb had embossed itself on the back of my hand when I got home half an hour later (with hives on my pinky because she touched my skin)

And I don't like what this one rib in particular is doing. Or the rest of these stupid bones.

Right bone, wrong place.