It may sound strange to some, but plastic surgeons have hand surgery in their training, which is extremely meticulous and sophisticated in the surgical sense. It is done with micro and semi-micro instruments and appropriate magnifications of surgical magnifiers or microscopes. Unfortunately, hand surgery is also handled by various surgeons "along the way" who do not have adequate education in this field. Hand surgery does not only involve trauma to the hand and replantation of the hand and fingers, but to a large extent elective procedures of secondary reconstruction of tendons and nerves, covering of hand defects with local and distant flaps, congenital deformities of the hand, secondary corrections of stiffness - "contracture" of the fingers - most often after burns and previous operations , operations for Dupuytren's contracture, decompression of the carpal tunnel, pseudoarthrosis of the scaphoid bone, instability of the carpal bones, etc.
What can hand surgery treat:
Risarthrosis; OA and CMC joint (Trapeziectomy and suspension reconstruction),
Compression of the nerve (n.medianus) in the carpal tunnel ("Carpal tunnel syndrome"),
Nerve compression (n.ulnaris) in Guyon's canal,
Compression of the nerve (n.ulnaris) in the cubital canal,
Surgical treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (Synoviectomy),
Surgical treatment of osteoarthritis (Arthrodesis),
Dupuytren's contracture (Viking disease, palmar fibromatosis, Celtic hand) is a condition in which one or more fingers become permanently bent in a flexed position),
"Trigger finger" (Stenosing tenosynovitis)
Primary tendon reconstructions,
Secondary tendon reconstructions,
Hand fractures,
Syndactyly (fused fingers),
Polydactyly (supernumerary fingers),
Hand tumors,
Local flaps on the hand,
Nail bed repair,
Scafolunate dissociation
SLAC/SNAC (Scapholunate advanced collapse/Scaphoid non-union advanced collapse)
Scaphoid fracture (Acutreck II),
Total wrist prosthesis (Motec),
"Proximal row carpectomy",
Ligament anchoring (Mitek),
"Bouttonniere deformity"
"Swan neck deformity“
Mallet finger („hammer finger).
- Hand Surgery
Improve Strength, Function and Flexibility
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