Right hand proper

Looks like

The hand beyond the wrist: palm with five metacarpal bones and the fingers.

What it does

Grasps, manipulates and senses objects; one of the body's finest tools.

Keeping it well

Hand injuries can look small but damage tendons and nerves; loss of movement or feeling after a cut needs a hand surgeon.

Its parts

• Right first metacarpal bone
• Right second metacarpal bone
• Right third metacarpal bone
• Right fourth metacarpal bone
• Right fifth metacarpal bone

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)
• Raynaud's phenomenon
• Repetitive strain & overuse injury
• Rheumatoid arthritis
• Sarcoma
• Vitamin B1, C and other deficiencies
• Vitamin D deficiency