Del Piñal guest of honor at the 11th International Congress of Chinese Orthopaedic Association
The meeting will gather more than twelve thousand practitioners from around the world at Beijing’s old Olympic press center next November.
The catastrophic hand (III): Possibilities of microsurgery for patients with serious injuries
There is no narrow definition of catastrophic hand, but with these couple of terms we describe an upper limb with limited functionality, bone malunions and aesthetical damages (mutilations and amputations, for example) after severe trauma.
The clinic of Dr. Del Piñal opens new premises in Madrid at Hospital La Luz
Medical consultations and surgery procedures will be performed at the facilities of Grupo Quirón near Madrid University town
87th annual meeting of the Japanese Orthopaedic Association: Del Piñal, guest professor in one of the largest medical events in Asia
The city of Kobe will host the 87th annual meeting of the Japanese Orthopaedic Association , in which will participate, according to the organizers, more than 10,000 worldwide physicians under the theme ‘ Dreams Come True: the soul and spirit of Orthopaedics.
The catastrophic hand (II). The physician perspective: ‘save what can be saved’, calm and collaboration
In ‘The catastrophic hand (I). The patient experience: hopes, plans and microsurgery’, we talk with Dr. Del Piñal on the characteristics and surgical and psychological challenges posed by transforming a catastrophic hand in one acceptable. A perspective that put the focus on the surgeon-patient relationship. In this second post about it, we change our approach […]
The catastrophic hand (I). The patient experience: hopes, plans and microsurgery
Google translation: The absence of armed conflicts and better labour security conditions have reduced the incidence oftraumatic hand injuries in Western countries. Yet emergency teams and ‘first response’ surgeons must face catastrophic hand situations. These ‘first response’ teams role is key in laying the groundwork for getting as close as possible to what Dr. Del Pinal defines […]
Wrist fracture: “There is hope for all patients, even those with previous failed surgery”
Google translation: Wrist fractures are part of our own vital activity. For children and youth, these are high-energy fractures, ie, the trauma caused by traffic accidents, sports injuries, falls from heights, etc.. On the contrary, when the patient grows old, the wrist low-energy fracture mechanisms come into play, such as small ‘slips’ – and bone […]
Piñal gives the master conference on hand surgery at the National Congress of SECPRE
This nationwide scientific-medical meeting, in its 48th edition, took place from June 5 to 7 in the town of Arona, Tenerife (Canary Islands).
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.
El Dr. Del Piñal ‘crea’ una nueva mano para un paciente amputado hasta la muñeca
El cirujano cántabro ha reconstruido la extremidad empleando una técnica pionera en el mundo, a partir de la transferencia de tres dedos del pie a la mano ‘recreada’ Del Piñal ha realizado una reconstrucción no anatómica con el objetivo de ‘generar’ un mano izquierda funcional donde apenas quedaba un muñón, tras el grave accidente laboral […]