{"id":911,"date":"2019-05-25T10:10:45","date_gmt":"2019-05-25T14:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/osteopathicvision.com\/staging\/?page_id=911"},"modified":"2019-05-25T10:10:49","modified_gmt":"2019-05-25T14:10:49","slug":"interosseous-membrane-strains","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/osteopathicvision.com\/staging\/interosseous-membrane-strains\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8212; Interosseous Membrane Strains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Strains in the interosseous membrane do different things in the upper versus the lower extremity due to the predominant direction the fibers of the interosseous membrane run.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>In the upper extremity, when the radius and ulna move in relationship to one another, the radius typically moves distally.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>This movement in the interosseous membrane approximates the radius and ulna which crowds the bones of the wrist.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>In this crowding, the lunate moves anteriorly (anatomic position), gets closer to the median nerve and predisposes the patient to carpal tunnel syndrome.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Correction involves returning the radius and ulna to their proper anatomic position, which will spread the interosseous membrane.<\/p>\n<p>The lower extremity interosseous membrane has fibers running in the opposite direction.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>When the fibula drops distally it spreads the tibia and fibula apart.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>This allows rotational motion of the talus between the bones that make up the mortise (giving you a non-fracture ankle sprain).<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>As long as the fibula stays in that distal position, the patient is predisposed to repeat ankle sprains.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Correction involves returning the tibia and fibula to their correct position which approximates and stabilizes the talus between the tibia and fibula.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strains in the interosseous membrane do different things in the upper versus the lower extremity due to the predominant direction the fibers of the interosseous membrane run.\u00a0 In the upper extremity, when the radius and ulna move in relationship to one another, the radius typically moves distally.\u00a0 This movement in the interosseous membrane approximates the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-911","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/osteopathicvision.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/osteopathicvision.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/osteopathicvision.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osteopathicvision.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osteopathicvision.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/osteopathicvision.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":912,"href":"https:\/\/osteopathicvision.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/911\/revisions\/912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/osteopathicvision.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}