Hand shape of median nerve injury

The hand type of median nerve injury is ape-shaped hand. Median nerve is one of the branches of brachial plexus nerve, which consists of nerve root fibers of cervical 5~8 and thoracic 1, and its course is in the middle of ulnar radial nerve, which innervates most of the muscles of forearm and hand, and it is responsible for sensory movement of three and a half fingers except for the thumb and little finger, as well as palmar and extensor movement of the thumb. The location of the median nerve is superficial, and the injury is usually caused by pulling injury, knife injury, cut or firearm injury. After the injury of the median nerve, its innervation of the greater pisiform atrophy, presenting the ape-shaped hand deformity, and its main clinical manifestations are the thumb to the palms of the dysfunction, the palm of the radial side of the hand sensory decompensation, and there is no physical sense of holding objects, and so on. Warm reminder: If you have median nerve injury, please consult a doctor in time, under the guidance of the doctor to avoid delaying the condition.