1952
DOI: 10.3109/17453675208989008
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Repair of Failing Opposition of the Thumb

Abstract: The thumb's ability to oppose the fingers of the hand is a complicated function made possible by the advantage taken of the united mobility of several joints and the composite action of several muscles. The opposition is chiefly the result of two types of movements: angulatory motion and rotary motion. If we watch our own thumbs yerforming opposition we will see that the top of the thumb describes a circular arc of about 120", i.e. the sum of the angulatory motion. The thumb then rotates at the same time about… Show more

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“…It has been just this very lack of correlation between a theoretical model and the anatomical structure that has stimulated us to further investigate the typical nature of this joint. Soderberg (1953) gives an account of the motion of the thumb by clinical observations only. He divides motion into two types of movements, namely angulatory motion and rotatory motion, from watching the thumb performing the opposition movement.…”
Section: B the Kinematic Approachmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…It has been just this very lack of correlation between a theoretical model and the anatomical structure that has stimulated us to further investigate the typical nature of this joint. Soderberg (1953) gives an account of the motion of the thumb by clinical observations only. He divides motion into two types of movements, namely angulatory motion and rotatory motion, from watching the thumb performing the opposition movement.…”
Section: B the Kinematic Approachmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…1) s'apprécient en clinique par les changements d'orientation de l'ongle au cours de l'opposition [5,6], mais il convient de ne pas confondre ce mouvement avec la « rotation spatiale » de l'ensemble du pouce par rapport à un axe fixe du laboratoire [6] ni avec la « rotation axiale » articulaire du premier métacarpien par rapport au trapèze (par exemple, autour de son axe longitudinal) [7]. Dans la littérature [1,5,[8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16], la grande variabilité de l'amplitude observée des mouvements de rotation du pouce (entre 158 et 1208 selon les auteurs, Tableau 1) illustre bien les confusions et les erreurs qui règnent dans ce domaine.…”
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