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 […]
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 […]
Testimonial: “I was told that it was crazy to operate Sudeck’s atrophy but the result has been marvelous”
Felicidad, 47 (Cantabria), cook, suffered a work accident with radius fracture, which led to a diagnose of reflex sympathetic dystrophy or Sudeck’s atrophy: «I was told that it was crazy to operate Sudeck’s dystrophy, but the result has been marvelous»
Five worrying signs after treatment or operation on a wrist fracture
In several of our previous conversations, Dr Piñal has insisted that a normal wrist is the one we’re not even aware it’s there, so therefore new or persistent sensations can point to the false resolution of a previous pathology or trauma. This is the case of wrist fractures, whose preceding treatment or subsequent surgery can […]
Dr Piñal, guest of honor at the congress of the Taiwan Society for Surgery of the Hand
The meeting will take place this coming May at the Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital
Dr. Piñal, honorary professor of The Philadelphia Hand Center (US)
The Spanish surgeon received this distinction during the XIXth edition of the annual symposium on hand surgery by this American medical institution
Wrist Arthroscopy: applications in complex surgery
The advent of arthroscopic surgery to wrist pathologies in the early 90s was a revolution on existing open intervention techniques.
Radius fractures in both wrists: surgery for articular malunion
The patient, a man of 48, suffers malunion of radius fractures in both wrists by accident-related trauma.
Nonunions and pseudoarthrosis of long bones in the upper limb
The poorly consolidated fractures or nonunions in the long bone joints of the the upper limb (shoulder girdle, arm, forearm and hand) result in pain and bone degeneration, if not addressed properly. These clinical pictures significantly affect everyday activity of the patient, leading to long-term sick leave in active people, to cite just one example of its potential […]