Anatom3DDorsal digital branches of ulnar nerve
Nervi digitales dorsales nervi ulnaris · Hřbetní prstové větve loketního nervu
Nervous system
Looks like
Fine end branches of the dorsal ulnar branch on the back of the little and ring fingers.
What it does
Bring feeling from the back of the little finger and half the ring finger.
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