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, 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 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.
Sport injuries in hand and wrist in professional and amateur athletes
The upper limb, especially the hand-wrist conjunction, is prone to injuries linked to sports practice, whether professional or amateur. The reason: its key role in most of the disciplines, either in an ‘executing’ function -as in tennis, basketball or other throwing/hitting sports- or a ‘helper’ one, as it’s the case in soccer and various contact sports in which, besides […]
Editorial: I have a dream… reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD or Complex Regional Pain Syndrome – CRPS1) does not exist
Francisco del Piñal, MD, PhD Journal of Hand Surgery European Edition Vol. 38, Editorial, June 2013, Pages 595 – 597 © 2013 The Author (s) 2013 ABSTRACT (full text pdf. below) Editorial: I have a dream… reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD or Complex Regional Pain Syndrome – CRPS1) does not exist Note The Editorial of a Journal is an opportunity for broader thinking […]
Editorial: I have a dream… reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD or Complex Regional Pain Syndrome – CRPS1) does not exist
Francisco del Piñal, MD, PhD Journal of Hand Surgery European Edition Vol. 38, Editorial, June 2013, Pages 595 – 597 © 2013 The Author (s) 2013 ABSTRACT (full text pdf. below) Editorial: I have a dream… reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD or Complex Regional Pain Syndrome – CRPS1) does not exist Note The Editorial of a Journal is an opportunity for broader thinking […]