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flexor

Any muscle that bends a limb. Flexors usually work in opposition to other muscles, the extensors, an arrangement known as antagonistic.



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Modeling of the tendons in the wrist with a free-body diagram showed that the reaction force exerted against the tendons from the carpal bones and flexor retinaculum increased as the wrist was extended.
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After treatment of the cervical region, numbness and tingling in the fingers also disappeared, which suggested to us that the carpal tunnel symptoms were from structures other than those under the flexor retinaculum.
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