Upper limb nerve integrity test

Upper limb nerve integrity test

Ulnar nerve

1)book test - adductor Pollocks

2)card test - palmar interossei

3)froment sign - flexor pollicis substitutes for adductor pollicis

4)egawa test - dorsal interossei

Median nerve

1)ape thumb - thenar muscles

2)pen test - abductor pollicis brevis

3)pincer grasp - flexor digitorum profundus and flexor pollicis longus

4)pointing index - flexor digitorum superficialis and lateral half of flexor digitorum profundus

Radial nerve

1)thumb and finger drop - extensor(post interosseous nerve

2)wrist drop - extensors of wrist