The Spanish public broadcaster (TVE) shows the advances of Dr Piñal’s work on complex regional pain syndrome
The conclusions of the Spanish surgeon will be published soon by the journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, ‘Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery’. complex regional pain syndrome
Radius malunions: characteristics and surgical approach
The radius is a bone located on the outside of the forearm, parallel to the ulna, which forms the joint complex of the wrist together with it and the carpal bone group. Its functions include facilitating flexion-extension and pronation-supination movements of the hand (a turn that allows us to position the back and palm up […]
Testimonial: “They thought I was crazy, that I was pretending. They did not understand my pain»
Andrea (Argentina), 38, is diagnosed with complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) or Sudeck’s atrophy after a prolonged clinical picture of pain, swelling and loss of mobility in her right hand, which includes an episode of phlebitis. The patient places the origin of the process in an extravasation of the contrast injected for an MRI scan […]
Surgical improvement in case of spastic hand
The patient, Alan, 30 years old, suffers from spastic paralysis in his right hand, after a motorcycle accident in which he sustained a head injury with neurological damage. Specifically, he presents function problems in the limb and, in particular, the muscles that determine thumb mobility are in hyperreflexia, that is, continuously contracting (co-contraction), which prevents […]
Dr Piñal participates in a webinar on the medical-social consequences of pyrotechnic accidents
The meeting, promoted by the Chilean organization COANIQUEM, is open to the participation of sociosanitary professionals from Latin America
Keynote lecture by Dr Piñal at the 15th edition of the congress of the European Federation of Societies for Microsurgery
The Spanish surgeon presented the latest advances in microsurgical techniques for approaching severe upper limb trauma
Dr Piñal describes a new pathology during the congress of the European Federation of Societies for Surgery of the Hand (FESSH)
The Spanish surgeon explained the main characteristics of the irritative carpal tunnel syndrome.
Salvage surgery in case of dorsal subluxation of the ulna
The patient starts from an ulna plus picture (that is, the ulna is longer than the radius at its distal ends) with ulnar pain, due to impaction of the ulnar head against the lunate bone of the right wrist. Before going to Dr Piñal, she had undergone an incorrectly executed arthroscopic Wafer procedure, in which […]
Media: microsurgery that rescues hands from quadriplegia
Various national media outlets echo the intervention of Dr Piñal to recover part of the functionality of the hands of a young quadriplegic.
Dr Piñal gives a keynote lecture at the congress of the Spanish Society of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery
Under the title ‘More than microsurgery in the hand’ (‘Más que microcirugía en la mano’), Piñal underscored the surgical approach to the upper limb “as a whole”, on the basis of technical presentations and case studies from his long medical career. The conference of the Spanish surgeon and microsurgeon, given last Monday, was one of […]