Doctor Piñal operates on Rudy Fernández
The Eurobasket champion and Real Madrid player, Rudy Fernández, underwent surgery for an injury to his right wrist that was causing disabling pain Doctor Piñal, who saw him in consultation a few months ago, diagnosed him with an injury to the ulnar tendon and a partial injury to the articular meniscus of the wrist. The […]
Doctor Francisco Piñal author of a chapter in the «Bible» of hand surgery
Book recognized as the gold reference in the field of hand surgery
Dr Piñal, first Spanish surgeon elected as an honorary member of the Australian Hand Surgery Society
The distinction recognizes Piñal’s medical career and his close personal and professional ties with Australia. The Australian Hand Surgery Society (AHSS) has appointed Dr Francisco del Piñal as an honorary member. Piñal, a fellow in microsurgery at the Royal Melbourne Hospital at the beginning of his career, is the first Spanish surgeon to receive this […]
Triangular fibrocartilage rupture and ulnar styloid fracture: dry arthroscopy surgery
The patient, 19, presents instability in the left wrist and pain at its ulnar edge. The symptoms, which limit its functionality, appear after a second injury (he had suffered a previous wrist fracture in childhood) and have their origin in a pseudoarthrosis of the ulnar styloid and the rupture of the insertion of the triangular […]
Dr. Piñal, guest speaker at the International Conference of the Egyptian Society for Surgery of the Hand and Microsurgery
The Spanish surgeon addressed various aspects of wrist surgery and the latest developments in thumb reconstruction during the two days of the meeting.
Dr Piñal, international keynote speaker at the congress of the Australian Hand Surgery Society
The Spanish surgeon will address the latest advances in arthroscopic surgery, treatment of nerve injuries or reconstructive microsurgery among other issues.
(Update 2) Media, TVE: Dr. Piñal discovers a procedure for the cure of cases of reflex sympathetic dystrophy
The Spanish surgeon will present his research, based on 29 analyzed clinical cases, before the American Society for Surgery of the Hand (ASSH) (news originally published on November 5, 2018, as of the last update, January 2021, Dr. Piñal has already operated on more than a hundred patients and has examined more than 200 with this […]
Dr Piñal invited to the Winter Meeting of the Norwegian Society for Surgery of the Hand
The Spanish surgeon approached in Lillehammer the latest advances in hand surgery and reconstructive microsurgery of the upper limb.
Testimonial: » They told me that I had Sudeck’s syndrome and that there was nothing to do”
Vega (La Rioja), 60, diagnosis of reflex sympathetic dystrophy or Sudeck’s atrophy after a scaphoid fracture: «They told me I had Sudeck’s syndrome and there was nothing to do.»
Dr Piñal gives a keynote speech at the 53rd edition of the congress of the Spanish Society of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery (SECPRE)
The Spanish surgeon will discuss the latest advances in hand and wrist surgery Dr Piñal