complaining of numbness involving the left medial hand and forearm in the s/l SEE UH dermatome.
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Subject: There is significant medial and medial *peripatellar* pain with hyperflexion.
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Oh, and you need to check the anatomy of the hand. Do a google search for "bones of the hand"
Subject: Oh, and you need to check the anatomy of the hand. Do a google search for "bones of the hand".
Try this site, you can click on the bones of the hand and it will tell you what the bone is called.
http://www.gwc.maricopa.edu/class/bio201/hand/anhand.htm
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Subject: likely C7 dermatome...
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no...medial most. nm
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I think he said medial
Subject: I think he said medial
I listened to it again, and I can kinda make out medial. I will probably just go with this.
medial?
Subject: medial?
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