The deep extrinsic flexors have their primary action at the digits.  These are the flexor pollicus longus and the flexor digitorium profundus.	Click on the shaded areas or words for more information. Click on the hand (below) to return to the Hand Kinesiology home page.

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Lorie Richards and Janice Loudon, University of Kansas Medical Center, School of Allied Health,
Occupational and Physical Therapy Education, October 1997