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Antebrachium · Předloktí
Muscles
Looks like
Two bones that cross when you turn the palm, packed with the muscles that move the hand.
What it does
Turns the hand over and works the fingers and wrist.
Keeping it well
Breaks from repetitive gripping and typing, and a neutral wrist.
Its parts
Related conditions
- Acromegaly
- Botulism
- Chronic venous insufficiency
- Clotting disorders (thrombophilia & APS)
- Compartment syndrome
- De Quervain's tenosynovitis
- Deep vein thrombosis
- Fibromyalgia
- Fractures
- Fragility fracture
- Frailty & falls in older age
- Heat exhaustion & heatstroke
- High blood pressure
- High cholesterol
- Hyperparathyroidism
- Hypothermia & frostbite
- Kawasaki disease
- Lymphangitis
- Malnutrition & refeeding syndrome
- Metabolic syndrome
- Muscular dystrophy
- Orthostatic hypotension & POTS
- Osteogenesis imperfecta (brittle bone disease)
- Osteomalacia & rickets
- Osteomyelitis (bone infection)
- Osteoporosis
- Paget's disease of bone
- Peripheral artery disease
- Phaeochromocytoma & hyperaldosteronism
- Polymyalgia rheumatica
- Pre-eclampsia
- Raynaud's phenomenon
- Repetitive strain & overuse injury
- Rhabdomyolysis
- Sarcoma
- Sarcopenia
- Sepsis
- Shock (circulatory failure)
- Tetanus
- Varicose veins
- Vasculitis (GCA & others)
- Vitamin B1, C and other deficiencies
- Vitamin D deficiency