Anatom3DSet of dorsal interossei of hand
Musculi interossei dorsales manus · Hřbetní mezikostní svaly ruky
Muscles
Looks like
Four small muscles filling the gaps between the hand bones on the back of the hand.
What it does
Spread the fingers apart and help bend the knuckles while straightening the finger joints.
Keeping it well
Powered by the ulnar nerve; wasting between the bones on the back of the hand needs assessment.
Related conditions
- Botulism
- Carpal tunnel syndrome
- De Quervain's tenosynovitis
- Dupuytren's contracture & trigger finger
- Fibromyalgia
- Frailty & falls in older age
- Ganglion cyst
- Heat exhaustion & heatstroke
- Juvenile idiopathic arthritis
- Malnutrition & refeeding syndrome
- Muscular dystrophy
- Polymyalgia rheumatica
- Pseudogout (calcium pyrophosphate disease)
- Raynaud's phenomenon
- Repetitive strain & overuse injury
- Rhabdomyolysis
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Sarcoma
- Sarcopenia
- Tetanus