A child fell in the playground and cut her hand on a piece ofglass. The cut extended across her wrist from the lateral border tothe midline, just distal to the trapezium bone. The cut was deepand the physicians in emergency were concerned about a possibleperipheral nerve lesion. Which nerve were they probably mostconcerned about and what motor and sensory tests would they do tocheck if this nerve had been damaged?.The child’s mother had beendiagnosed with carpal tunnel syndrome. How would the pattern ofinjury in the mother’s hand differ from that of the child? Positionyour hand in the way you think the hand would appear with each ofthe two lesions described.
