The extensor carpi radialis longus is a muscle in the forearm that helps control wrist movements. Learn more about this muscle, how it works, and how to improve its function. Skip to main content ...

The extensor tendons in your feet are called the extensor hallucis longus, extensor hallucis brevis, extensor digitorum longus, and tibialis anterior.

Haddad SL, Sabbagh RC, Resch S, et al. Results of flexor-to-extensor and extensor brevis tendon transfer for correction of the crossover second toe deformity. Foot Ankle Int. 1999;20(12):781-788.

ABSTRACT Techniques for restoring thumb opposition require multiple incisions and frequently use nonagonist muscles. Our experience using an agonist muscle through a single palmar approach is ...

In median-nerve palsy, all intrinsic muscles of the thumb are paralyzed except the adductor pollicis and medial part of the flexor pollicis brevis. The flexor longus, abductor longus, extensor ...

De Quervain tenosynovitis is pain and swelling in the tendons around your thumb. Specifically, it affects the tendons of two muscles called abductor pollicis longus and extensor pollicis brevis ...

Medically reviewed by Michael Menna, DO Medically reviewed by Michael Menna, DO Arm muscle anatomy refers to the location and function of the muscles of the arms. These muscles attach to the ...

In cases where the palmaris longus is absent, the surgeon may use one of several other tendons, including the extensor pollicis brevis tendon, the plantaris in the foot, a toe extensor, a small ...

De Quervain’s Disease is a painful tendinitis that develops at the base of the thumb at the wrist level. A Swiss surgeon, Fritz de Quervain, first described this problem in 1895. Numerous ...

Stenosing tendovaginitis is due to a thickening of the fibrous sheath that covers the tendons and the synovial sheaths of the abductor pollicis longus and the extensor pollicis brevis as they pass ...