Dr. Del Piñal in the list of foreign lecturers of the 4th Nordic Wrist Arthroscopy Course
This technical training event took place in Copenhagen last 2nd and 3rd December
Dr. Del Piñal: “If no hope is given to someone with a radius fracture, we are before lack of knowledge or just malpractice”
Las fracturas de radio o fracturas de Colles se producen de forma muy común, y –por desgracia- en demasiadas ocasiones son abordadas incorrectamente. De forma tradicional se han considerado lesiones de muñeca de buen pronóstico, lo que genera excesos de confianza que desembocan en diagnosis y tratamientos inadecuados.
Del Piñal will take part in the 69th annual meeting of the American Society for Surgery of the Hand
The Spanish surgeon will also participate in a session of the International Workshop Wrist Investigation Dr. Francisco del Piñal has been invited to the 69th annual meeting of the prestigious American Society for Surgery of the Hand (AASH), which celebrates this event in Boston (Massachusetts, USA) during the next 18th,19th and 20th, September. Del Piñal […]
Del Piñal gives the master lecture at the conference ‘Distal radius fractures and associated injuries’, organized by the San Carlos Clinical Hospital in Madrid
The Spanish surgeon addressed the use of arthroscopy in distal radius fractures and related lesions The San Carlos Clinical Hospital (Madrid) hosted last February 21st the conference ‘Distal radius fractures and associated injuries’, promoted by its Hand Surgery Unit, under the direction of Dr. M ª Dolores Gimeno. Within the program of this training course […]
Del Piñal, guest speaker at a meeting on hand surgery organized by the University Hospital of Munich
The Spanish surgeon spoke about arthroscopic treatment of complex distal radius fractures The German city of Munich hosted last November 16th the first edition of ‘Munich Hand’, which aims to provide a platform for knowledge transfer for therapists and hand surgeons in the länder of Bavaria. In this context, Dr. Del Piñal was the only […]
Dr. Piñal: «Reflex sympathetic dystrophy does not exist, it is a ‘scam’, a catch-all in which to hide what goes beyond our knowledge»
Under the name of syndrome of reflex sympathetic dystrophy (for its acronym in English, RSD and CRPS * 1) a whole series of symptoms are grouped – continuous pain, redness, burning, swelling, etc. – that usually appear in patients who have previously suffered some type of trauma or fracture.
‘My wrist cracks’. Characteristics, risks and treatment of scaphoid fractures
The scaphoid is the part of the complex bone structure of the wrist that is injured most often. It is located in the carpus, a composition of eight bones arranged in two rows of four, whose function is to facilitate the connection between hand and forearm and, therefore, allow its movements. The vulnerability and relevance […]