The patient presents with a flexor pollicis longus (FPL) tendon laceration. The FPL originates from the anterior radius and coronoid process and inserts at the distal phalanx of the thumb.

Repeat measures design. The purpose of this study was firstly, to describe a simple clinical tool that can be used to measure the extensibility of the flexor pollicis longus (FPL) muscle; secondly ...

In median-nerve palsy, all intrinsic muscles of the thumb are paralyzed except the adductor pollicis and medial part of the flexor pollicis brevis. The flexor longus, abductor longus, extensor ...

The ring-finger sublimis can also be used to replace a flexor pollicis longus tendon in the thumb when tendon grafting is contraindicated or when the muscle of the flexor pollicis longus has ...

The thumb has no lumbricales, its flexor sheath has only three pulleys, ... If tendon retraction is significant, one option is lengthening the flexor pollicis longus (FPL), ...

The expanded label will now include the addition of two thumb muscles: flexor pollicis longus and adductor pollicis. The FDA has also approved an increase in the maximum cumulative dose within ...

The flexor digitorum profundus allows you to bend your ring, middle, index, and pinkie fingers. ... Your abductor pollicis longus abducts the thumb, or moves it away from the palm. ...

Unlike the Stener lesion, sprains of the UCL and even Gamekeeper’s thumb fractures heal well on their ... a small portion abductor pollicis longus, or even a part of the flexor carpi radialis tendon.

They extend for about 2.5cm above the flexor retinaculum to about halfway along each metacarpal, except for the little finger in which the sheath is continuous and extends to the terminal phalanx and ...