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Breakage: K-wires may bend or break, especially if the fracture does not heal. [2] Loss of fixation: Smooth K-wires may back out of the bone losing the fixation. This is especially likely if they pass between two mobile bones. Migration of K-wires can occur; instead of backing out the wire can move deeper.
Gamekeeper's thumb and skier's thumb are two similar conditions, both of which involve insufficiency of the ulnar collateral ligament (UCL) of the thumb. The chief difference between these two conditions is that skier's thumb is generally considered to be an acute condition acquired after a fall or similar abduction injury to the metacarpophalangeal (MCP) joint of the thumb, whereas gamekeeper ...
There is generally pain and bruising at the back side of the farthest away finger joint. [3] A mallet finger usually results from overbending of the finger tip. [3] Typically this occurs when a ball hits an outstretched finger and jams it. [3] This results in either a tear of the tendon or the tendon pulling off a bit of bone. [3]
If a jammed finger produces a fracture, pain will be greatest at the bone as opposed to the joint. [2] There may also be visual deformation of the bone itself. [6] As with any skeletal injury, an x-ray can be conducted to verify the presence of a fracture. [1] The distal phalanx is especially vulnerable to avulsion fractures. [1]
[clarify] For some individuals, the partial insertion of "K-wires" into either the DIP or PIP joint of the affected digit for a period of a least 21 days to fuse the joint is the only way to halt the disease's progress. After removal of the wires, the joint is fixed into flexion, which is considered preferable to fusion at extension.
Muscle pain symptoms. Most of us have felt the pain of a sore muscle after too many squats or a long walk. "The muscle will hurt when you use that muscle, and when you stop using that muscle, it ...
The muscles can be compared to guy-wires supporting a flagpole; tension from these muscular guy-wires must be provided in all directions to maintain stability in the articulated column formed by the bones of the thumb. Because this stability is actively maintained by muscles rather than by articular constraints, most muscles attached to the ...
Swan neck deformity has many of possible causes arising from the DIP, PIP, or even the MCP joints. In all cases, there is a stretching of the volar plate at the PIP joint to allow hyperextension, plus some damage to the attachment of the extensor tendon to the base of the distal phalanx that produces a hyperflexed mallet finger.