Flexor Pollicis Longus (FPL)
- Instruct the patient “Bend the tip of your thumb”
- Insertion: distal phalanx of thumb
- Action: flexion of thumb IP joint
- Innervation: Median nerve
The 13 muscle groups you need to test in the hand exam:
- FPL
- FDP
- FDS
- Thenar muscles
- Interosseous
- Hypothenar muscles
- EPB and APL
- EPL
- EDC
- EIP and EDM
- ECRL and ECRB
- ECU
- Adductor Pollicis
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