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The Living Textbook of Hand Surgery is an editable and updatable open access textbook for hand surgery in English. Chapters undergo peer review before publication. In accordance with the Budapest Declaration of the Open Access Movement, this textbook is freely available using Creative Commons licenses.
Arthroplasty surgery for TMC OA removes part or all of the trapezium. [27] Surgery may also support the metacarpal by reconstructing a ligament using a tendon graft or weave. Surgery may also place something in the space where the trapeziometacarpal joint was, either a tendon wrapped up into a ball or a prosthesis.
[1] [3] Joint replacement surgery may be an option if there is ongoing disability despite other treatments. [2] An artificial joint typically lasts 10 to 15 years. [11] Osteoarthritis is the most common form of arthritis, affecting about 237 million people or 3.3% of the world's population as of 2015. [4] [12] It becomes more common as people ...
A recent advance is the progression to 'wide awake hand surgery.' [8] In a few countries such as Sweden, Finland and Singapore, hand surgery is recognized as a clinical specialty in its own right, [9] with a formal four to six years hand surgery resident training program. Hand surgeons going through these programs are trained in all aspects of ...
Hand Surgery is a journal on "injury and disease of the hand and upper limb and related research", [1] with an Asia-Pacific perspective. It has been published by World Scientific since 1996 and includes articles on surgical technique, case reports, and information regarding meetings and education programmes.
The new articulation of the capitate with the lunate fossa of the distal radius is not as congruent as the former scaphoid-lunate-radius joint. [16] [17] This and other issues contribute to potential to develop arthritis over the years. In part based on these concerns, some surgeon prefer to maintain the lunate in patients younger than 40 years ...
At the 2007 meeting of the American Society for Surgery of the Hand, a former advocate of endoscopic carpal tunnel release, Thomas J. Fischer, MD, retracted his advocacy of the technique, based on his own personal assessment that the benefit of the procedure (slightly faster recovery) did not outweigh the risk of injury to the median nerve.
Joint replacement is considered as a treatment when severe joint pain or dysfunction is not alleviated by less-invasive therapies. Joint replacement surgery is often indicated from various joint diseases, including osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis. [citation needed] Joint replacement has become more common, mostly with knee and hip ...