Anatom3DProper palmar digital branches of ulnar nerve
Nervi digitales palmares proprii nervi ulnaris · Vlastní dlaňové prstové větve loketního nervu
Nervous system
Looks like
Fine nerves running along the sides of the little finger and the little-finger side of the ring finger.
What it does
Bring touch from these fingertips.
Keeping it well
Finger cuts can divide them; numbness beyond a cut needs a hand surgeon.
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