Hand Nerve Injuries: Claw Hand, Gamekeeper Thumb, Froment Sign | PM&R Board Review (MSK-07-b)

Hand: Thumb UCL Injury, Intrinsic Muscles, and Deformity by Nerve Injury. Part of the Musculoskeletal series of the Reflex PM&R Board Review podcast. The full companion chapter and a linked board-style Q-bank set for this topic are at https://www.reflexpmr.com/read/MSK-07-b. On YouTube, every Musculoskeletal episode in order: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHZu3dmTnObo. Educational only, not medical advice. AI-narrated from the Reflex chapter.

Chapters:

0:00 Intro

0:31 Episode Setup

3:00 Gamekeeper Thumb, Skier Thumb, and the Stener Lesion

9:55 Intrinsic Muscles of the Hand

13:08 Ulnar claw hand, Froment, Jeanne, and Wartenberg

17:19 Median nerve: ape hand, benediction, AIN

20:20 Radial nerve: wrist drop, tenodesis, PIN

24:20 Seddon and Sunderland nerve injury grading

29:10 Hand infections: flexor tenosynovitis, paronychia, felon

32:54 5 Things to Know Cold