Anatom3DDorsal intercarpal ligaments
Ligamenta intercarpalia dorsalia · Hřbetní mezizápěstní vazy
Joints & cartilage
Looks like
Bands across the back of the wrist, joining the wrist bones of each row to one another.
What it does
Keep the small wrist bones moving together as a unit.
Keeping it well
Part of the wrist support that surgeons use as a graft or approach route in wrist surgery.
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