upper limb injuries Flashcards
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clavicle fractures maily occur in
middle 1/3rd 80 %
lateral 1/3 12 - 15 %
middle 1/3 5 - 6 %
managment of clavicular fractures is
conservative
sling 3 - 4 weeks
fingure of 8 bandages
reconstuive sugery -
acomocialvi joint injur is
tear of acoroclivic joint
acromial clavicual joint treatmetn time is
3 - 4 weeks in splin
proxial humeral treatmet is
consteaive - sling for 6 weeks
operative mange for fiex with plate, and joint replacement
methods for fixing sholde dislocatoin are
hippocrati and kocher’s
cause of distal radial fractue is
high velous injureus and falling out steahced hand
treamt of disl raidl fracure is
splints/ cast, reudce it with casts and wires
surgial plate and exteral fixator - if dsipalceed
complcateio of distal rail fractues
malunion
druj pain distal raidl ulna joint pain
epl rupture
capal utnnel sydnoem
scaphoid fracutes is diagnose though
xray of wrist or mri
risk of scaphoid fracues is
non unito or asvualisr necorisis
scaphoid facure is cuased by
fall onto outstreached hand
scaphoid fracute is tendor in
the anatomicl stuff box
traematn for of scaphod fracute is
cast for 6 weeks
and sugery if non unioin or dispaced
ligament injury of thmum is due to
redail force
injury of ligment of thum is norally
ulna collaglertal ligmanert
exmaaiton of ulna colateral ligmetn injury is
tendor ulna side and joint that opens on a radial side
treamtment of ucl injruy is
splint / csast or rail repar
benneets fracture is
fracture of 1st medacpaural joint of thumb due to boxing or falling on outstehced hand
treatmetn of benntes fracure is
reducot , maintion though plaster, wire or screw fixatoin
fight injureis are
swelling of hand - boxer fracure
flight bties - can damage mcp joint and have brown teeth in situ- this leads to severe injecciton
flexor tneon injries are usually cuaed by
knife lacerations and mainly effect males
flexor tenion injry is worst in
zone 2 - the phalanes metagpahrlaes area due to fds and fdp hard to treate
treamten of flexor tenon ijuries is
kessler technique