Hand, Elbow, and Microsurgery Unit
Specialists in hand, wrist, elbow, microsurgery, minimally invasive surgery, sports medicine, and congenital/child hand conditions.
WRIST
The wrist is the joint connecting the forearm to the hand and is one of the most complex structures in the musculoskeletal system. It provides humans with the ability to perform intricate movements and apply pressure with the hand.
It consists of multiple bone, muscle, tendon, and ligament structures, including 10 bones: Radius, Ulna, Scaphoid, Lunate, Triquetrum, Pisiform, Hamate, Capitate, Trapezoid, and Trapezium. The wrist features four joints that work together to enable a wide range of movements (flexion, extension, ulnar deviation, and radial deviation) and numerous ligaments that facilitate many of our daily tasks.
Wrist pathologies cause significant limitations for patients, including pain, reduced strength, and loss of mobility, among other symptoms.
Among the most common pathologies treated at ICATME, within the Hand, Elbow, and Microsurgery Unit, are: radial fractures, scaphoid fractures, ulnar pain syndromes (such as triangular fibrocartilage injuries and ulnocarpal impaction), degenerative conditions (wrist osteoarthritis, tendon and ligament injuries), tendinitis, scapholunate ligament injuries, and nerve-related conditions such as carpal tunnel syndrome or ulnar nerve syndrome.
To treat these conditions, ICATME’s Hand, Elbow, and Microsurgery Unit employs state-of-the-art surgical techniques like arthroscopy and percutaneous surgery.
COMMON WRIST PATHOLOGIES
Treated at ICATME’s Hand, Elbow, and Microsurgery Unit
- Wrist Arthritis.
- Wrist Arthroscopy.
- Wrist Osteoarthritis.
- Kienböck’s Disease.
- Wrist Sprains.
- Scaphoid/Carpal Bone Fractures.
- Radius and Ulna Fractures.
- Distal Radioulnar Joint Instability.
- Triangular Fibrocartilage Complex (TFCC) Injury.
- Scapholunate Ligament Injury.
- Synovial Cysts.
- Scaphoid Nonunion.
- Carpal Tunnel Syndrome.
- De Quervain’s Tenosynovitis.
