Acute finger and thumb injuries of the ligament and tendons are common. Indeed, a cross-sectional study in 2012 showed that they accounted for 38.4% of all upper extremity injury visits to the ...

Anterior interosseous nerve, which supplies the flexor pollicis longus, pronator quadratus, and flexor digitorum profundus muscles to control the thumb. Phrenic nerve, which supplies the diaphragm.

Proximal stump of flexor digitorum superficialis tendon. Postoperatively the patient was splinted in 15° of flexion at the PIP joint for 3 weeks, and digital flexion was encouraged.

Pitcher Jackson Jobe is going on the injured list with a Grade 1 strain of the flexor tendon in his right elbow, the team announced Friday. Though he was placed on the 15-day IL, ...

Bozentka DJ, Litts C. Late Reconstruction of Flexor and Extensor Tendon Injuries. MedGenMed 1(1), 1999 [formerly published in Medscape Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine eJournal 3(1), 1999].

Basal glucose transport in both soleus and extensor digitorum longus muscles in vitro was reduced by 73–88% in muscle-G4KO mice (Fig. 1d and e).Insulin-stimulated glucose transport was abolished ...