Anatom3DDorsal digital branches of radial nerve
Nervi digitales dorsales nervi radialis · Hřbetní prstové větve vřetenního nervu
Nervous system
Looks like
Fine end branches of the superficial radial nerve on the back of the thumb, index and middle fingers.
What it does
Bring feeling from the back of these fingers up to the middle knuckle.
Keeping it well
Cuts on the back of the hand can divide them, leaving small numb areas.
Related conditions
- Amyloidosis (AL and ATTR)
- Botulism
- Carpal tunnel syndrome
- Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease
- Chickenpox (varicella)
- Chronic neuropathic pain
- Chronic pain syndrome
- De Quervain's tenosynovitis
- Dupuytren's contracture & trigger finger
- Fibromyalgia
- Ganglion cyst
- Guillain-Barré syndrome
- Juvenile idiopathic arthritis
- Lyme disease
- Myasthenia gravis
- Peripheral neuropathy
- Pseudogout (calcium pyrophosphate disease)
- Rabies
- Raynaud's phenomenon
- Repetitive strain & overuse injury
- Restless legs syndrome
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Shingles (herpes zoster)
- Tetanus
- Vitamin B1, C and other deficiencies