Wrist examination

Dorsum, side, palmar- palmar flex wrist to exacerbate dorsal swellings

Deformity e.g. radial deviation after colles, prominent ulna

Swellings e.g. ganglion

Scars, muscle wasting

Start radial side & move in a circle around wrist;

Palpate for tenderness of :

- APL, EPL- de Quervain's

- Anatomical snuffbox- scaphoid

- Distal Radioulnar joint

- lunate- locate by dorsiflexing wrist

- ulnar styloid

- Hook of hamate

- Pisiform- pisiform triquetral degen

- Guyons canal

- Over median nerve