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	Wrist drop - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Wrist drop, also known as radial nerve palsy, is a condition where a person can not extend their wrist and it hangs flaccidly.
		Wrist extension is achieved by muscles in the forearm contracting, pulling on tendons that attach distal to (beyond) the wrist.
		Wrist drop is also associated with lead poisoning because of the effect of lead on the radial nerve.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wrist_drop (540 words)

	Monograph 18 ~ FOREARM AND WRIST TRAUMA
		Wrist strength in flexion is nearly double that in extension, and the power of extension is greatly lessened when the wrist is fully flexed.
		The wrist is essentially a biaxial complex of joints that is capable of motion in two planes: (1) radial and ulnar deviation and (2) palmar flexion and extension.
		On the dorsal aspect of the wrist, the scaphoid is the common carpal problem; on the ventral aspect, it is the lunate, hamate, and pisiform.
	www.chiro.org /rc_schafer/Monograph_18.shtml (9279 words)

	- Northwestern Memorial Hospital - Chicago
		Prolonged or repeated constriction of the wrist (caused by wearing a tight watch strap, for example) can also cause an injury to terminal portions of the radial nerve.
		There may be weakness of the wrist and finger extension muscles (with decreased ability to extend the arm at the elbow), a minor decreased ability to rotate the arm outward (supination), and difficulty lifting the wrist or fingers (extensor muscle weakness).
		Wrist drop or finger drop may be present, or there may be atrophy (muscle loss) of some of the muscles of the forearm.
	www.nmh.org /nmh/adam/adamencyclopedia/HIEArticles/000790.htm (906 words)

	FightingArts.com - Escaping The Wrist Grab: Part 1 - From The Same Side
		Incapacitating a wrist could stop a weapon from being withdrawn, or provide a critical second of incapacitation for an attacker to use his or her weapon.
		This turns your opponent's wrist over into a similar position as done in the technique above, but it also moves you away from any potential attack by the assailant's other fist while manipulating the assailants arm so it is impossible (unless he lets go) of turning towards you to attack.
		This dropping motion that lets gravity do the work, and that uses muscles only to halt movement (rather than generate it), is one of the forgotten secrets used by some of the old karate masters.
	www.fightingarts.com /content02/wrist_1.shtml (1732 words)

	Injuries to the Brachial Plexus
		Wrist drop is caused by injury to the posterior cord and the radial nerve in the axilla.
		However, pronation of the forearm, flexion of the wrist and digits, and movement of the thumb are severely affected.
		The pronator muscles of the forearm and the long flexors of the wrist and fingers will be paralyzed, except for the flexor carpi ulnaris and medial half of the flexor digitorum profundus.
	info.med.yale.edu /anatomy/notes/upper-limb8-3.html (779 words)

	Questions about the...technique! - Badminton Central Discussion Forums
		In the case of the flick, I uncock wrist and use forearm and wrist Supination to further propel the birdie.
		I pull wrist back to the extreme, then as my forearm starts propelling foward, I first tighten the pinky to give it the initial acceleration and as contact is made, I tighten my pinky and thumb to give it the snap.
		On the backswing, the forearm pronates and the wrist deviates radially; on the forward swing, the forearm supinates and the wrist deviates ulnally.
	www.badmintoncentral.com /forums/showthread.php?p=479547#post479547 (3181 words)

	Spirit Bomb
		Learn the wrist mount, because it is useful for all the new yo-yo tricks some of the Spin Doctors are putting out these days.
		This wrist mount is used in a lot of new moves, so it is good to learn.
		It's almost the same as the the one you landed in the Wrist Mount.
	sector_y.yoyoing.com /Tricks/String_Tricks/Spirit_Bomb/Spirit_Bomb.htm (1199 words)

	The Martialist: The Magazine For Those Who Fight Unfairly
		Rather, the RENOTT trainee opens his or her knife with the handle drop, and then, gripping the razor-sharp blade with his or her fingers, slashes with the exposed one or two inches of the knife.
		Keep the forearm steady and drop the wrist sharply into the body at a 30-45 degree angle.
		As I said earlier, the risk of dropping a knife while performing this opening is very great, as is the risk of cutting yourself (you're holding a knife by the blade, after all).
	www.themartialist.com /pecom/nydrop.htm (925 words)

	Chapter Wringbolt <i>to</i> Wronghead of W by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)
		the wrist of the left hand, in which a horseman holds the bridle.
		A series of quickly alternating movements of flexion and extension of the wrist, produced in some cases of nervous disease by suddenly bending the hand back upon the forearm.
		An elastic band worn around the wrist, as for the purpose of securing the upper part of a glove.
	www.bibliomania.com /2/3/257/1214/24545/2.html (428 words)

	AAN \| Students & Residents \| Medical Students \| Profiles in Neurology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		An old clinical pearl is that the wrist drop begins with weakness of the extensors of the middle and ring fingers, later involving the index and little fingers, and thereafter the wrist extensors.
		The classic neuropathy that produces a chronic bilateral wrist drop is, of course, lead poisoning.
		The wrist drop is bilateral; his complexion is pale, suggesting substantial anemia.
	www.aan.com /students/medical/pro_cas.cfm (1790 words)

	BioMed Central \| Full text \| Motor neuronopathy with dropped hands and downbeat nystagmus: A distinctive disorder? A ...
		Finger and wrist extension weakness was severe, but she could still flex her fingers, grip her cane, and propel her wheelchair.
		Wrist and elbow extensors were moderately weak, slightly worse on the right (grade 4), while finger, wrist, and elbow flexors were only minimally affected.
		Between 1986 and 1990, the disorder progressed to a clinically obvious anterior horn cell disorder predominantly affecting the arms, with wrist drop and finger drop, gross shoulder girdle, arm and forearm atrophy with fasciculations, chest fasciculations, and mostly preserved leg and cranial musculature.
	www.biomedcentral.com /1471-2377/6/3 (3325 words)

	Radial Neuropathy: The Wrist-Drop of Saturday Night Palsy
		wrist usually recover before those that straighten the fingers.
		While waiting for the nerve to heal, the wrist can be splinted in a neutral position with a device that leaves the
		The fingers are more functional when the wrist is straight.
	www.cordingleyneurology.com /radialneuropathy.html (827 words)

	Wrist Immobilization Lecture
		Careful with wrist positioning (avoid deviation in frontal plane, choose neutral or appropriate amount of extension in sagital plane
		An electromyography study of wrist extension orthoses and upper-extremity function.
		Hertling, D., and Kessler, R.M. The wrist and hand complex.
	moon.ouhsc.edu /gsharp/wrist_immobilization_lecture.htm (216 words)

	CancerSymptoms.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		These sensations, known as paresthesias can move from the fingertips to the hands and wrist and from the toes to the feet.
		Wrist drop is caused when muscles in your hand become weak.
		Foot drop is caused when the muscles in your feet and ankles become weak because of injury to the nerves.
	www.cancersymptoms.org /peripheralneuropathy/causes.shtml (739 words)

	Online Education Center
		The patient stated that about three months ago, he was working as a car mechanic loosening a bolt in a car with a wrench, and apparently the wrench slipped.
		Patient presents with an acute left wrist drop.
		Superficial radial sensory nerve compression at the wrist is usually due to tight handcuffs, tight wrist ware or local wrist trauma.
	www.aanem.org /education/casestudy/leftwristdrop_2.cfm (431 words)

	eMedicine - Radial Mononeuropathy : Article by Elizabeth A Sekul, MD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The sensory branch that arises approximately at the elbow travels down the forearm, becoming superficial at the wrist before it supplies the lateral aspect of the dorsum of the hand.
		If the lesion is at the wrist, patients complain of isolated sensory changes and paresthesias over the back of the hand without motor weakness.
		In isolated posterior interosseous lesions, sensation is spared and motor involvement occurs in radial muscles distal to the supinator.
	www.emedicine.com /neuro/topic587.htm (1426 words)

	GOLF MAGAZINE'S Top 100 Teacher Tips (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		A rigid left wrist is usually the cause of a blocked throughstroke, which reduces feel and consistency.
		To stop over-controlling with your left wrist, drop your left hand off the grip and practice putting with your right arm only.
		Hit a bunch of 20- to 30-footers, letting the right wrist react to the putter's momentum and keeping the butt end of the grip pointed at your navel through the stroke.
	www.golf.com /apps/instruction/text/top100_home.asp?id=269 (147 words)

	AAPM&R - December 1997 EMG Case
		Slight to moderate weakness is present in the right upper limb in radial wrist extension, radial wrist flexion, forearm pronation, and flexion of the thumb, index and middle fingers.
		No weakness is found in ulnar wrist flexion or flexion of the distal phalangeal joints of the ring and little fingers.
		Since weakness of radial wrist extension is less than weakness of the muscles innervated by the posterior interosseus nerve, there may be two separate lesions of the radial nerve, for a total of three focal lesions.
	www.aapmr.org /education/archive/9699/emg9712a.htm (999 words)

	wrist drop - General Practice Notebook (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		A wrist drop is the characteristic deformity of a radial nerve lesion.
		In order to demonstrate this phenomenon, if not already obvious, direct the patient to flex the elbow and pronate the forearm and ask him to extend the wrist.
		In a radial nerve injury causing wrist drop a patient will not be able undertake this manoeuvre.
	www.gpnotebook.co.uk /cache/617611280.htm (124 words)

	Testosterone Nation - 13 Tips for Mighty Elbows & Wrists
		Not to be confused with wrist straps, which help you hold onto the bar, wrist wraps have made a huge difference in keeping my elbows and wrists healthy.
		Conversely, the wrist is built for mobility, but it lacks stability — stability that can be artificially created with a wrist wrap.
		The wrists, elbows, and shoulders should share heavy loading in the upper body, but when you take the shoulders (the strongest of the three joints) out of the equation and maintain a lot of the weight, you can wind up with some tender elbows.
	www.t-nation.com /readTopic.do?id=1270397 (2397 words)

	drop shots - Badminton Central Discussion Forums
		I usually dont try to drop when my opponent clears it to me, but in certain cases or under certain curcimstances, i just sort of do like a soft drive depending on how far from the net you are.
		there is no perfect model for drop shot cos the racket doesn't do anything for you when you do an overhead drop shot, itz the player's skill that determines the perfection of the drop shot.
		This drop, got me delegated to playing at the back, in state of at the front, 'cos the irritating coach believes that since i can do it in playing in the front, i can do it at the back as well, and i haven't been playing well ever since.
	www.badmintoncentral.com /forums/showthread.php?t=1395 (780 words)

	Nerves in upper extremity
		Radial nerve palsy: wrist drop, numb on dorsum web between thumb and index.
		Motor weakness: Triceps, wrist and finger extensors, brachioradialis and supinator of forearm.
		Wrist: Carpal Tunnel syndrome, direct trauma to wrist, suicide attempt, falling on glass.
	www.neuroland.com /spine/ue_nerve.htm (156 words)

	Radial Nerve Palsy -- eCureMe.com
		Wirst drop -- the patient cannot extend the wrist and fingers outward when the palm is in a downward position
		External compression of the radial nerve -- after sleeping with an arm over the back of a chair, the patient experiences a drop in the wrist, tingling, and numbness of the forearm and hand.
		A wrist splint or brace may be helpful for the functional use of the hand in dealing with a severe wrist drop.
	www.ecureme.com /emyhealth/data/Radial_Nerve_Palsy.asp (341 words)

	Leg drop - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A Leg drop or Legdrop refers to an attack used in professional wrestling in which an attacking wrestler will jump and land his leg across a fallen opponent's chest, throat, face or head.
		The move involves an attacking wrestler placing the back of his/her opponent's head (who is leaning forward) under his/her leg before dropping their leg and the opponent's head down to the mat.
		This can be achieved by first holding an opponent in an inverted facelock or by simply grabbing the opponent and forcibly leaning them back before lifting one of their legs over the opponent's head an dropping to a sitting position.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Leg_drop (336 words)

	wrist drop: ALS or MS?
		I have been experiencing some weakness in my right wrist and have noticed that it tends to drop when I am picking up heavy items (unlike the left wrist).
		I am concerned about ALS or MS and was wondering whether you know if wrist drop is more prevalent in either disease.
		Generally, if one has an isolated wrist drop, I think of a nerve injury (for example, radial nerve) rather than anything in the brain or spinal cord (as in MS or ALS).
	www.medhelp.org /perl6/neuro/archive/11313.html (423 words)

	Online Education Center
		There was decreased sensation around the left posterior aspect of the radial hand.
		The patient had a positive Tinel’s and Phalen’s sign over the right median nerve at the wrist.
		He however had 5/5 strength with hip flexion, extension, knee flexion, extension, foot dorsiflexion and plantar flexion in bilateral lower extremities.
	www.aanem.org /education/casestudy/leftwristdrop_3.cfm (301 words)

	ENLmedical.com: Conditions And Concerns: Medical Encyclopedia: Radial nerve dysfunction
		It occurs when there is damage to the radial nerve, which travels down the arm and supplies movement to the triceps muscle at the back of the upper arm, extension to the wrist, and helps in movement and sensation of the wrist and hand.
		Prolonged or repeated constriction of the wrist (such as that which may occur with a tight watch strap) may cause an injury to terminal portions of the radial nerve.
		Nerve pain may be quite uncomfortable and may persist for a prolonged period of time.
	www.enlmedical.com /article/000790.htm (724 words)

	Mononeuritis multiplex in Crest Syndrome
		In the early hours of the first night at the rehab center she developed and acute R. wrist drop.
		Unfortunately she lost the L. wrist suddenly during the night about three weeks after this admission despite steroid Rx.
		At present she is at home with R. foot drop{Emg show sciatic lesion and sans improvement since onset 9-98}, R. and L. wrist drop with slight flexion of thumbs and index and middle fingers on left and no extension or flexion of either wrist.
	www.medhelp.org /forums/neuro/archive/13304.html (450 words)

	Training Library - Forearm/Wrist Extensor Stretch
		Helps prevent injury and pain by maintaining mobility of the wrist and elbow.
		Sit or stand straight up and raise your left arm straight out in front of you with your elbow locked and palm facing down.
		Using your right hand, put your thumb running across the left wrist and wrap the fingers around your left fist.
	www.fitness-to-play-golf.com /library_forearm_extensor.html (185 words)

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