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Anatomy any muscle that stretches or extends an arm, leg, or other bodily part
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Treatment with NSAIDs or corticosteroid injections (see table 1 (2-4) for choices) in the first compartment of the extensor retinaculum (figure 7) is usually adequate to provide relief.
Hand and arm pain: a pictorial guide to injections: this article, with illustrative figures, will help you get to the cause of your patient's pain and guide your administration of corticosteroid injections
Although the preferred method for lateral ankle ligament reconstruction has been the Brostrom-Gould technique, which achieves ligament repair/shortening with advancement of the inferior extensor retinaculum, there is increasing evidence that arthroscopic examination at the same time may be beneficial.
New lateral ligament reconstruction approach: arthroscopic-assisted surgery subjectively and objectively improved outcomes, researcher reports
The proper antebrachial fascia continues on the dorsal aspect of carpus as the extensor retinaculum, which descends on the dorsal aspect of the metacarpus and digits and is illustrated in Fig.
The suspensory apparatus and digital flexor muscles of the llama (Lama glama) 1. The thoracic limb/El aparato suspensorio y los musculos flexores digitales de la llama (Lama glama) 1. El miembro toracico
It divides distally into four tendons which pass in a common synovial sheath with the tendon of extensor indicis, through a tunnel under the extensor retinaculum and diverge on the dorsum of the hand, one to each finger (1,2).
Tendones anomalos del extensor de la mano y su importancia clinica
Lister proposed using a portion of the extensor retinaculum for pulley reconstruction.
Hand injuries in rock climbers
The deep peroneal nerve can become compressed in the fibro-osseous tunnel underneath the inferior extensor retinaculum.
MRI of the ankle

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