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Wrist Dorsal Superficial | Wrist Volar | Finger Ligaments | Help | Hand Kinesiology
Lorie Richards and Janice Loudon, University of Kansas Medical Center, School of Allied Health,
Occupational and Physical Therapy Education, October 1997
Synovial sheaths are deep to the
fibrous sheaths in the digits and wrist. The tendon sheaths are synovial sheaths through
which the flexor tendons glide. They reduce the frictional forces of the tendons within
their tunnels. 
