The scaphoid and lunate bones, and their position relative to each other, are critical for wrist motion. The scapholunate complex is also vital to transmitting force across the wrist.

Beneath your scaphoid and lunate bones, you will find the radiocarpal joint. This connects the other two bones to the radius, the inner bone of your arm. It’s a modified ball-and-socket joint ...

Therefore, clinicians should carefully check for common missed injuries in the wrist, which often appear in 1 of the 3 traditional presentations: scaphoid fracture, triquetral fracture, lunate ...

The scapholunate dissociation allows the scaphoid to move away from the lunate and therefore, reproduce a gap in the joint. Patients experiencing this difficulty will rarely improve with rest alone.

Typical acute symptoms of a scapholunate tear are wrist pain in the dorsolateral aspect of the wrist (1 cm distal to the dorsoradial tubercle), swelling and/or bruising, weak hand grip, and loss ...

In the wrist, the semipronated oblique is useful in identifying scaphoid fractures, the most common carpal bone fracture (Fig. 3). The reverse oblique is quite useful for detecting fractures of ...

Hi doc, I had my wrist operated on to repair my scaphoid bone and a bone graft was done. The stitches were taken out after 3 weeks and my hand was put in a cast. A week after the stitches were removed ...

The scapholunate ligament connects the scaphoid and lunate bones in the wrist and is a primary stabilizer of the joint between the two. Miller is not the first star NBA player to suffer this injury.