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Applied anatomy of the wrist, thumb and hand

The metacarpophalangeal joint of each of the second to fifth fingers is a ‘ball-and-socket’ joint with a slack joint capsule, which is reinforced by strong palmar ligaments and collateral ligaments (see Gosling, Fig. 3.102). The collateral ligaments are taut when the joint is flexed. The possible movements are flexion (90°, Fig. 8) and exten-

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