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.»
Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy (RSD)/CRPS/SUDECK does not exist
Francisco del Piñal, M.D., Dr. Med. IFSSH Ezine Vol. 9 Issue 3 No. 35 pp. 22-32. Edited by International Federation of Societies for Surgery of the Hand ((IFSSH) (August 2019) INTRODUCTORY PARAGRAPHS (full text pdf. below) Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy (RSD)/CRPS/SUDECK does not exist This essay was prompted by a letter from Professor Mennen, Editor of Ezine, […]
Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy (RSD)/CRPS/SUDECK does not exist
Francisco del Piñal, M.D., Dr. Med. IFSSH Ezine Vol. 9 Issue 3 No. 35 pp. 22-32. Edited by International Federation of Societies for Surgery of the Hand ((IFSSH) (August 2019) INTRODUCTORY PARAGRAPHS (full text pdf. below) Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy (RSD)/CRPS/SUDECK does not exist This essay was prompted by a letter from Professor Mennen, Editor of Ezine, […]
Dr Piñal gives a keynote speech at the 53rd edition of the congress of the Spanish Society of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery (SECPRE)
The Spanish surgeon will discuss the latest advances in hand and wrist surgery Dr Piñal
Dr. Piñal participates in the US in the teaching panel of the triennial course on advances in wrist surgery of the Mayo Clinic
Under the title ‘Controversies in wrist surgery 2019’, the meeting counts on the collaboration of the European Wrist Arthroscopy Society (EWAS).
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.
In-depth interview with Dr Piñal in ‘Directivos y empresas’ (‘Directors and Companies’)
‘Directivos y empresas’, a monthly economy magazine aimed at private sector managers and executives, includes an extensive in-depth interview with Dr Piñal, in which he reviews his professional career and the evolution of his medical discipline. The Spanish surgeon responds to questions such as the development of wrist surgery since the nineties, the validity of […]
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 […]