Anatom3DDorsal carpometacarpal ligaments
Ligamenta carpometacarpalia dorsalia · Hřbetní karpometakarpální vazy
Joints & cartilage
Looks like
Short bands on the back of the hand, joining the second row of wrist bones to the bases of the hand bones.
What it does
Hold the bases of the hand bones to the wrist; the index and middle ones are almost rigid.
Keeping it well
Injured in punches and falls, sometimes with fracture-dislocations that are easily missed on X-ray.
Related conditions
- Carpal tunnel syndrome
- De Quervain's tenosynovitis
- Dupuytren's contracture & trigger finger
- Ganglion cyst
- Gout
- Haemophilia & bleeding disorders
- Juvenile idiopathic arthritis
- Lyme disease
- Marfan syndrome & connective tissue disorders
- Osteoarthritis
- Pseudogout (calcium pyrophosphate disease)
- Psoriatic arthritis
- Raynaud's phenomenon
- Repetitive strain & overuse injury
- Rheumatic fever & rheumatic heart disease
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Systemic lupus erythematosus
- Temporomandibular joint disorder