Anatom3DLeft ring finger
Digitus anularis manus sinistrae · Levý prsteník
Skeleton
Looks like
The fourth digit: three phalanges on the fourth metacarpal.
What it does
Contributes to grip; shares tendons and muscle with the middle and little fingers, so it moves least independently.
Keeping it well
Ring avulsion (ring caught while jumping) is a serious injury. Remove rings before swelling after a hand injury.
Its parts
Related conditions
- Acromegaly
- Carpal tunnel syndrome
- De Quervain's tenosynovitis
- Dupuytren's contracture & trigger finger
- Fractures
- Fragility fracture
- Frailty & falls in older age
- Ganglion cyst
- Hyperparathyroidism
- Juvenile idiopathic arthritis
- Osteogenesis imperfecta (brittle bone disease)
- Osteomalacia & rickets
- Osteomyelitis (bone infection)
- Osteoporosis
- Paget's disease of bone
- Pseudogout (calcium pyrophosphate disease)
- Psoriatic arthritis
- Raynaud's phenomenon
- Repetitive strain & overuse injury
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Sarcoma
- Vitamin B1, C and other deficiencies
- Vitamin D deficiency