🚨 Compartment Syndrome🚨 From a healthcare perspective, this is one of the scariest emergencies and one you don’t want to miss. When pressure builds up inside a muscle compartment (often after trauma, fracture, crush injury, or even tight casts), blood flow gets cut off. The muscle literally starts dying from the inside out. ⏱️ Time = Tissue. Once nerves and muscle are deprived of oxygen for too long, damage becomes irreversible….sometimes within 6 hours. ⚠️ Key Symptoms • Excruciating pain out

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The superficial volar compartment of the forearm includes four muscles: pronator teres, flexor carpi radialis, palmaris longus, and flexor carpi ulnaris. These muscles share a common flexor origin at the medial epicondyle, but they may also contribute to pain at their wrist insertions, such as with FCR or FCU tendinopathy. This post is the first in our series on wrist and hand tendinopathies, where we will connect anatomy with pathology, clinical reasoning, and evidence-based management. At VHSF