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    This document provides mnemonics to help remember the important muscles and bones of the forearm. It summarizes the carpal bones using "Stop Letting Those People Touch The Cadaver's Hand", describes the extensor muscles of the forearm using the "Rule of 3", and illustrates the flexor muscles of the forearm using "PFPF" and the hand position. Nerve innervations are also provided for the forearm muscles.

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    This document provides mnemonics to help remember the important muscles and bones of the forearm. It summarizes the carpal bones using "Stop Letting Those People Touch The Cadaver's Hand", describes the extensor muscles of the forearm using the "Rule of 3", and illustrates the flexor muscles of the forearm using "PFPF" and the hand position. Nerve innervations are also provided for the forearm muscles.

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    Mnemonic For Forearm Muscles and Bone

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    Laura Tapia
    This document provides mnemonics to help remember the important muscles and bones of the forearm. It summarizes the carpal bones using "Stop Letting Those People Touch The Cadaver's Hand", describes the extensor muscles of the forearm using the "Rule of 3", and illustrates the flexor muscles of the forearm using "PFPF" and the hand position. Nerve innervations are also provided for the forearm muscles.

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    Mnemonic for forearm muscles and bone

    There are a lot of structures in your upper limb (note that in medical term; arm, forearm
    and hand means differently from the common usage).

    I would like to introduce you on how I remember the names of important muscles and
    bones in the upper limb. There are various mnemonics created by medical students
    around the world to master the field of anatomy.

    Carpal bones.
    I used this mnemonic;

    Stop Letting Those People Touch The Cadaver's Hand.

    From lateral to medial;


    Proximal row - Scaphoid, Lunate, Triquetrum and Pisiform
    Distal row - Trapezium, Trapezoid, Capitate and Hamate.

    To differentiate trapezium and trapezoid, remember that Trapezium is at Thumb, hence


    the most lateral bone in distal row of carpal bones.

    Extensor muscles of forearm


    Rule of 3

    3 muscles for wrist extension

    • Extensor carpi radialis brevis


    • Extensor carpi radialis longus
    • Extensor carpi ulnaris

    3 muscles for finger extension

    • Extensor digitorum ( for all four fingers)


    • Extensor indicis
    • Extensor digiti minimi

    3 muscles for thumb

    • Extensor pollicis longus


    • Extensor policis brevis
    • Abductor pollicis longus

    Nerve:
    All extensor muscles of forearm are supplied by radial nerve. Injury to radial nerve
    caused the classical wrist drop due to unopposed flexor muscles :)

    Flexor muscles of forearm.


    Place your thumb at the palm and put this at your contralateral forearm at your medial
    epicondyle with your middle finger pointing towards the thumb distally. The forearm
    must be in supine position.

    Your thumb will be below the palm and four fingers will be pointing towards the hand.
    This represents the layers in flexor muscles in the forearm.

    Say PFPF. The first P in your index finger is Pronator Teres. F is for flexor carpi
    radialis (the middle finger point towards radial bone, hence radialis). The next P is for
    palmaris longus and F is for flexor carpi ulnaris.

    The thumb is for flexor digitorum superficialis.

    There are 3 layers in the flexor compartment. The muscles in the deep layer are flexor
    digitorum profundus (FDP), flexor pollicis longus and pronator quadratus.

    Nerve:
    All flexor muscles of forearm are supplied by median nerve except one and half. They are
    flexor carpi ulnaris and half of flexor digitorum profundus.

    Muscles of the hand


    PAD DAB - palmar hand muscles adduct, dorsal hand muscles abduct

    Thenar and hypothenar muscles


    All For One And One For All (medial to lateral)

    Abductor digiti minimi, Flexor digiti minimi, Opponens digiti minimi, Adductor pollicis,
    Opponens Pollicis, Flexor Pollicis Brevis, Abductor pollicis brevis
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    <!--[endif]-->All intrinsic muscles of the hand are innervated by ulnar nerve except these
    muscles which are innervated by the median nerve

    LOAF muscles

    Lateral 2 lumbricals, Opponens pollicis, Abductor pollicis brevis, Flexor pollicis brevis

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