Summary muscle of the hand

Muscles Acting On The Hand Joints

Nerve-
Action. Muscle. Origin. Insertion.
supply.
From common
Flexor tendon on inner Palmar surfaces of base of
Flexion carpi condyle second metacarpal bone and a Median
radialis of humerusand deep small slip to third metacarpal
fascia
From common Surface
Palmaris
tendon and deep of anterior annularligament and Median
longus
fascia central part of palmar fascia
From common
tendon on inner
condyle and deep
fascia, the inner To the pisiform bone, and
Flexor
border of the continued on to the hook of the
carpi Ulnar
olecranon process, unciform and the base of the
ulnaris
and the upper three- fifth metatarsal
fifths of the
posterior border of
the ulna
From the common
flexor tendon ; the
The muscle divides into four
internal lateral
tendons; these split to allow the
ligament of
tendon of flexor profundus
theelbow-joint and
Flexor digitorum to pass through, and,
deep fascia; the
sublimis after uniting again, each tendon Median
inner border of
digitorum divides into two parts to be
coronoid process of
inserted into the sides of the
ulna (above that of
second phalanges of the four
pronator radii teres);
inner metatarsals
the oblique line of
the radius
From the upper two-
thirds of the anterior
The muscle divides into four
and internal surfaces
tendons, each of which passes
of the ulna up to the Ulnar and
through the corresponding
Flexor inner surface of the anterior
tendon of flexor sublimis
profundus olecranon process; interosseous
digitorum to be inserted in the
digitorum inner half of middle
bases of the terminal phalanges
third of the (median)
of the four inner metatarsals
interosseous
(see Lum-bricales)
membrane and deep
fascia