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✅ Carpal Bones
8 bones: Two rows of four!
Proximal row (Lateral Thumb to Medial)
Scaphoid, Lunate, Triquetrum, Pisiform
Distal row (Lateral to Medial)
Trapezium, Trapezoid, Capitate, Hamate
✅ Mnemonic for Carpals
She Looks Too Pretty, Try To Catch Her (Lateral to Medial)
1️⃣ She - Schaphoid
2️⃣ Looks - Lunate
3️⃣ Too - Triquetrum
4️⃣ Pretty - Pisiform
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5️⃣ Try - Trapezium
6️⃣ To - Trapezoid
7️⃣ Catch - Capitate
8️⃣ Her - Hamate
🥼 Clinical
Scaphoid Fracture: Falling on outstretched arm, pain located in anatomical snuffbox, risk of necrosis (interruption in blood supply)
Boxer’s Fracture: Fracture of 5th metacarpal. Distal part of fracture displaces anteriorly, shortening of affected finger.
Bennett’s Fracture: Fracture of 1st metacarpal. Forced hyperabduction of the thumb. Extends into the 1st carpometacarpal joint causing instability and subluxation of the joint.
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