Surgical elimination of neuropathic pain in the sciatic and pudendal nerves
The patient has suffered for several years a strong neuropathic pain in the hip and gluteal area due to a neurostenalgia of the sciatic and pudendal nerves. This nervous condition causes inability to sit or adopt any posture that involves hip flexion without pain, but can be eliminated by surgery.
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 […]
Toes to hand transplant in a case of accidental amputation with a mechanical saw
The patient, a 42-year-old male, suffers the amputation of three fingers of the left hand at different levels, in an accident with a mechanical saw that severely damages the index and middle fingers and, to a lesser extent, the ring finger. Dr. Piñal addresses the picture described by transplanting the two second toes to the […]
Extensive interview with Dr. Piñal in the newspapers of Grupo Vocento on the occasion of his toe to hand transplant number 500
The paper media of Grupo Vocento (El Correo, Diario Montañés, Norte de Castilla, Ideal de Granada, La Verdad de Murcia, etc.) devoted an extensive interview to the Spanish surgeon Francisco Piñal last Wednesday. The main reason: his toe to hand transplant number 500, with a success rate of 99%.
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.
Piñal partakes as a speaker in the VI Convention of the Medical Profession, promoted by the Spanish General Council of Official Medical Associations
The Spanish surgeon was one of the guest speakers this past weekend at the VI Convention of the Medical Profession, a biennial meeting held in Madrid and that on this occasion had as a leitmotiv the analysis of the doctor-patient relationship and different professional aspects of this activity sector.
Media, A3 TV: Dr. Piñal transplants two toes to the hand of a boy who suffered the explosion of a fireworks rocket
Borja, a 13-year-old from Cantabria, lost three fingers of his right hand due to the explosion of a fireworks rocket. Dr Piñal and his team have managed to restore its functionality by transferring two toes of the patient’s feet. toe transplant
Dr Piñal participates in the international panel of speakers of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Indian Society for Surgery of the Hand
Francisco del Piñal was the only Spanish surgeon in the foreign teaching team of the meeting.