Dr. Piñal presents the international guest conference of the 74th edition of the annual congress of the American Society for Surgery of the Hand (ASSH)
The meeting, with more than three thousand participants, took place at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas last week
Testimonial: «I was in terrible pain, but Dr. Piñal’s operation has revived me»
Mikaela Rebota (Pamplona), 70, is diagnosed with reflex sympathetic dystrophy or Sudeck’s atrophy after a radius fracture: «I was in terrible pain, but Dr. Piñal’s operation has revived me».
Testimonial: «After the intervention of Dr Piñal I’m coming back to my life again»
Eva Latorre (Tarragona), 40, presents a diagnosis of reflex sympathetic dystrophy or Sudeck’s atrophy after a carpal tunnel release intervention in her right hand: “after the intervention of Dr Piñal I’m coming back to my life again”.
Dr. Piñal participates as guest speaker at the Big Hand Event 2019 in Utrecht
The Spanish surgeon took part in the sessions devoted to reflex sympathetic dystrophy and toe to hand transplantation Dr. Piñal was part of the list of foreign speakers of the Big Hand Event 2019 (BHE 2019), an annual meeting that addresses hand pathologies in a multidisciplinary way and which was hosted at the Jaarbeurs Convention Center, in the Dutch […]
Dr Bartolomé Beltrán interviews the Spanish surgeon Francisco Piñal in La Sexta’s program «What’s wrong Dr?»
Beltrán and Piñal address various aspects of upper limb surgery such as wrist fractures, reconstructive microsurgery or Sudeck’s syndrome for around half an hour.
Diagnosis reassessment and surgery: healing of a patient with Sudeck’s atrophy
Diana Feijoo, 40, was operated on the wrist last September. Since then she has developed a picture of severe pain, diagnosed as reflex sympathetic dystrophy or Sudeck’s atrophy. The patient, in turn, is polymedicated to try to mitigate symptoms that also include serious mobility difficulties in her left hand, disabling in the personal and work […]
Patient diagnosed with reflex sympathetic dystrophy or Sudeck’s atrophy: healing by means of diagnostic correction and surgery
The patient, Camelia, 46, who works as a cook, suffers from very intense pain, lack of function and numbness in her dominant hand, the left; all diagnosed as reflex sympathetic dystrophy or Sudeck’s atrophy. After several months, she attends the clinic of Dr. Piñal who cures her, after accurately identifying the pathology of origin and […]
Dr Piñal: «There are many patients labeled as sick of reflex sympathetic dystrophy or Sudeck’s dystrophy who actually suffer from a pathology that we haven’t been able to identify»
As a result of his research work, Dr. Piñal believes that after diagnoses of reflex sympathetic dystrophy, we find diagnostic mistakes and lack of knowledge of a hidden pathology. In turn, he has identified that around 20% of these cases can be addressed as neurostenalgies and forms of dynamic compression of the median nerve.
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.
Dr Piñal: «People with alleged reflex sympathetic dystrophy have to rebel against that diagnosis and seek a second opinion»
“The advancement in medical technology and in the knowledge of the own physicians has a proportional relationship with the decline of diagnoses of reflex sympathetic dystrophy ” (Dr Francisco del Piñal). A conversation about reflex sympathetic dystrophy with Dr Francisco del Piñal leaves no one indifferent. His questioning of the very existence of the also […]