Anatom3DUpper limb
Membrum superius · Horní končetina
Muscles
Looks like
Shoulder, arm, elbow, forearm and hand — 32 bones a side, ending in a thumb that meets every finger.
What it does
Reaching, gripping, feeling and fine work.
Keeping it well
Shoulder and grip strength, breaks from repetitive work, a workstation at the right height.
Its parts
- Armpit
- Shoulder
- Arm (upper arm)
- Elbow
- Forearm
- Wrist & hand
- Investing fascia of right upper limb
- Investing fascia of left free upper limb
- Synovial joints of free upper limb
- Brachial fascia
- Deltoid fascia
- Dorsal fascia of hand
- Lateral intermuscular septum of arm
- Medial intermuscular septum of arm
- Superficial transverse metacarpal ligament
Related conditions
- Achondroplasia
- Acromegaly
- Amyloidosis (AL and ATTR)
- Botulism
- Breast cancer
- Buerger's disease (thromboangiitis obliterans)
- Bursitis
- Carpal tunnel syndrome
- Cat-scratch disease
- Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease
- Chickenpox (varicella)
- Chilblains (pernio)
- Chronic neuropathic pain
- Chronic pain syndrome
- Chronic venous insufficiency
- Clotting disorders (thrombophilia & APS)
- Compartment syndrome
- Cubital tunnel syndrome
- De Quervain's tenosynovitis
- Deep vein thrombosis
- Dermatomyositis and polymyositis
- Dupuytren's contracture & trigger finger
- Fibromyalgia
- Fractures
- Fragility fracture
- Frailty & falls in older age
- Frozen shoulder (adhesive capsulitis)
- Fungal nail infection (onychomycosis)
- Ganglion cyst
- Gout
- Guillain-Barré syndrome
- Haemophilia & bleeding disorders
- Heat exhaustion & heatstroke
- High blood pressure
- High cholesterol
- Hyperparathyroidism
- Hypothermia & frostbite
- Juvenile idiopathic arthritis
- Kawasaki disease
- Leprosy (Hansen's disease)
- Lichen planus
- Lyme disease
- Lymphangitis
- Male breast cancer
- Malnutrition & refeeding syndrome
- Marfan syndrome & connective tissue disorders
- Metabolic syndrome
- Muscular dystrophy
- Myasthenia gravis
- Orthostatic hypotension & POTS
- Osteoarthritis
- Osteogenesis imperfecta (brittle bone disease)
- Osteomalacia & rickets
- Osteomyelitis (bone infection)
- Osteoporosis
- Paget's disease of bone
- Peripheral artery disease
- Peripheral neuropathy
- Phaeochromocytoma & hyperaldosteronism
- Polymyalgia rheumatica
- Pre-eclampsia
- Pseudogout (calcium pyrophosphate disease)
- Psoriatic arthritis
- Rabies
- Raynaud's phenomenon
- Repetitive strain & overuse injury
- Restless legs syndrome
- Rhabdomyolysis
- Rheumatic fever & rheumatic heart disease
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Rotator cuff tear & impingement
- Sarcoma
- Sarcopenia
- Sepsis
- Shingles (herpes zoster)
- Shock (circulatory failure)
- Shoulder dislocation
- Systemic lupus erythematosus
- Temporomandibular joint disorder
- Tendinopathy (tennis & golfer's elbow, Achilles, patellar)
- Tetanus
- Thoracic outlet syndrome
- Varicose veins
- Vasculitis (GCA & others)
- Vitamin B1, C and other deficiencies
- Vitamin D deficiency
- Warts, molluscum and skin infections