Standing, sitting, or lying supine
Anterior to the hand
May I touch your hand? ( or point to the demonstrated area )
Please bring your thumb away from and toward your palm, across your palm and back, roll across your palm
and back, touch your thumb and little finger and return Ö(or demonstrate and this is much easier when you
demonstrate).
The carpometacarpal joint of the thumb is formed by the articulation of the trapezium and the metacarpal
bone of the thumb. With the patient relaxed, palpate the trapezium as it articulates with the metacarpal
bone. Palpate the joint during thumb abduction, adduction, flexion, extension, medial and lateral rotation,
and opposition and reposition motions.
VH ñ close up of the anterior hand skeleton, no muscles