January 16, 2014 | Posted in Uncategorized | By drsmespinoza
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Today we are going to look a closer at the bones of the wrist and hand and practice our palpation techniques.
1. Draw an outline of your hand and then draw in the bones and label them.
Pay special attention to the carpal bones. You can think of the carpal bones as being in 2 layers of 4 bones. although they are not evenly spaced.
You can use the following links as a reference for the shapes of the bones.
http://www.ivy-rose.co.uk/HumanBody/Skeletal/Hand-Bones.php
http://visual.merriam-webster.com/human-being/anatomy/skeleton/hand.php
2. Using the first letter of each bone, create your own mnemonic for remembering the carpal bones in order:
Here is an example
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3. Practice palpating the bones of the hands. Can you find them on yourself? Can you find them on someone else?
4. Practice labeling the bones of the wrist and hand (2 links) –
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