Dr. Del Pinal, “Good surgeons consider physiotherapy a key in the recovery of their patients”
Google translation: The beginning of the definition for physiotherapy by the WHO in 1958 is eloquent when describes it as the “science of treatment”. Thus, it defines a role, in the case of traumatology, in which physiotherapy is an extension of the surgical procedure, and -therefore- the surgeon and physiotherapist are parts of a ‘gear’ to […]
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 […]
Del Piñal, international guest speaker at a course on hand, wrist and elbow surgery in Chile
The Spanish surgeon is the only foreign expert invited, along with Dr. Jeffrey Yao, professor at the Stanford University Dr. Francisco del Piñal starts today his participation in the international postgraduate course ‘Update in surgery of the hand, wrist and elbow‘. The meeting is organized by the Chilean Los Condes Clinic, sponsored by the Faculty […]
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.