Hand/Wrist Injury

What is the most commonly fractured carpal bone?

• Triquetrum

• Trapezium

• Capitate

• Scaphoid

Repetitive motions of the wrist accompanied by pain, numbness, and tingling indicates what injury?

• Colles' fracture

• Mallet finger

• Jersey finger

• Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

____ is a common fracture of the radius just above the wrist. It primarily occurs when a person extends their hand in an attempt to break a fall.

• Jersey finger

• Mallet finger

• Scaphoid fracture

• Colles fracture

A colles fracture is a fracture of the....

• distal radius

• scaphoid

• hook of hamate

• distal ulna

What is this motion at the wrist?

• Flexion

• Radial Deviation

• Pronation

• Inversion

Pain in the anatomical snuffbox can indicate a fracture of what bone?

• Scaphoid
• Lunate
• Radius
• Ulna

Which tendon is torn when someone has a mallet finger injury?

• Flexor tendon
• Extensor tendon

Hard impact over proximal interphalangeal joint causes extensor tendons to slip and athlete cannot bend the tip of finger or straighten the middle joint

• mallet finger

• jersey finger

• boutonniere deformity

• gamekeeper's thumb

Finger receives impact causing flexor tendon to be torn from the bone 

• jersey finger 
• mallet finger
• tendinitis 
• gamekeeper's thumb 

A small hard bump above a tendon or in a capsule that encloses a joint and is typically located on the dorsal aspect of the wrist is called a ______________.

• ganglion cyst

• jersey finger

• epicondylitis

• boxer's fracture