Functional recovery and pain elimination surgery in case of Sudeck’s atrophy (complex regional pain syndrome or reflex sympathetic dystrophy) in the lower limb
Marina, 12, shows severe pain and significant functional limitations after a right ankle sprain four months ago. After different tests, it’s concluded that she has reflex sympathetic dystrophy or Sudeck’s atrophy in the lower limb, a disease that currently has no treatment.
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 […]
Gaya Bar wins the Israeli judo championship after her serious wrist injury intervened by Dr Piñal
The judoka Gaya Bar won the victory last June in the junior national championship (U-21) of Israel, one year after the intervention of Dr Piñal to treat a perilunate dislocation of her wrist.
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
Radius fracture in childhood: rescue surgery and removal of ulnar pain in adult age
The patient, a nurse by profession, suffered a radius fracture in childhood that slowed the normal growth of this bone. This shorter radius length leads to an ulna plus situation, in which the head of the ulna is well above the radial border and impacts extensively (impaction syndrome) with the ulnar carpal area. This bone […]
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 […]