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 […]
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. 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 […]
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 […]
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.