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Intrinsic Muscles of Hand and Their Nerve Supply
Intrinsic Muscles of Hand and Their Nerve Supply
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1. Thenar muscles:
Abductor pollicis brevis
Flexor pollicis brevis
Opponens pollicis brevisAdductor pollicis ( does not form thenar eminence)
2. Hypothenar muscles:
Abductor digiti minimi
Flexor digiti minimi
Opponens digiti minimi
Palmaris brevis
3. Four Lumbricals (one for each digit except thumb)
4. Four Palmar interossei (third digit /middle finger does not have palmar
interrossei).
5. Four dorsal interrossei ( thumb and the fifth digit/little finger do not have
dorsal interrossei, whereas middle finger has two dorsal interrosei)
Interrossei muscles
Four dorsal interossei:
There is one dorsal interossei for index and ring finger and two dorsal
interossei for the middle finger. They are numbered 1-4 from lateral to medial
side.
They are bipennate .
They take origin from the adjacent sides of the shafts of the metacarpal bones.
Are inserted into the dorsal digital expansion (DGE) and base of proximal
phalanx of the difgits ( 1st and 2nd on the lateral side of DGE and 3rd and 4th
on the medial side of DGE.
They are the abductors of digits (Dorsal ABduct = DAB).
All are supplied by deep branch of ulnar nerve.
Three palmar interossei
There is one palmar interossei for index, ring and little finger. They are
numbered 1-3 from lateral to medial side.
They are unipennate.
They take origin from the anterior aspect of metacarpals 2, 4 and 5,
They are inserted into dorsal digital expansion (DGE) of the difgits ( 1st on the
medial side of DGE and 2nd and 3rd on thelateral side of DGE.
They are the adductors of digits (Palmar ADduct = PAD).
They are innervated by the deep branch of ulnar nerve.
phalanx of
thumb
NERVE
MUSCLE ORIGIN INSERTION ACTION
SUPPLY
thumb
towards the
fingers
pollicis (is not bases of 2nd and 3rd of base of thumb branch of
metacarpal
Origin, Insertion, Action and nerve Supply of Thenar Muscles
MUSCLE ORIGIN INSERTION ACTION NERVE SUPPLY
Pisiform finger.
Pisiform finger
grip nerve