<prompt> A 29-year-old patient comes in; he cannot flex the distal interphalangeal DIP joint of the index finger. His physician determines that he has nerve damage from a supracondylar fracture. Which of the following conditions is also a symptom of this nerve damage?Inability to flex the DIP joint of the ringfingerAtrophy of the hypothenar eminenceLoss of sensation over the distal pa of the second digitParalysis of all the thumb muscles  <response>: Median nerve is injured in supracondylar fracture. It supplies The flexor digitorum profundus muscle flexes the DIP joints of the index and middle fingers sensation over the distal pa of the second digit. The median nerve innervates the thenar muscles. So atrophy of hypothenar muscle will not occur. 