Anatom3DPalmar carpometacarpal ligaments
Ligamenta carpometacarpalia palmaria · Dlaňové karpometakarpální vazy
Joints & cartilage
Looks like
Short bands on the palm side, joining the second row of wrist bones to the bases of the hand bones.
What it does
Stabilise the joints between wrist and hand, which barely move except for the thumb and little finger.
Keeping it well
Of little clinical importance on their own; torn in fracture-dislocations of the hand.
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