Arrows indicate linen (A), skin (B), tendons of extensor digitorum ... flexor digitorum profundus (G), tendons of flexor digitorum superficialis (H), distal portion of carpal ligament (J), median ...

and the four tendons of the flexor digitorum superficialis). Compression of the median nerve within this narrow tunnel leads to symptoms of carpal tunnel syndrome. The palmar cutaneous branch of ...

The median nerve is one of the nerves which supplies the hand. It passes through the wrist in a narrow channel called the carpal tunnel along with the flexor digitorum superficialis and flexor ...

The carpal tunnel is a passageway for the median nerve ... The other tendon is the flexor digitorum superficialis, which is assessed by having the patient flex the proximal interphalangeal ...

The tendon flexes the interphalangeal joint of the thumb and is innervated by the medial nerve. Pollicis ... and the flexor digitorum superficialis flexes the proximal interphalangeal joints ...

Carpal tunnel syndromeis probably the most common nerve entrapment disorder ... palpate the gap between the tendons of the flexor digitorum superficialis and the flexor carpi radialis and then mark ...