Patient visits OrthoNOW & discovers he has a scaphoid fracture that never healed Patient fell skateboarding and iced his wrist without being checked by a specialist. After weeks of tenderness and pain the patient decided to visit OrthoNOW where it was discovered that he had a scaphoid fracture. Diagnosis: Right scaphoid delayed union of the mid… [Read More]
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9 Ways to Curb Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Pain
Is Working From Home Causing CarpalTunnel Syndrome? 9 Ways to Curb the Pain By Gabrielle Kassel, August 20, 2020 Carpal tunnel syndrome, one of the most phonetically pleasing health conditions in the English language, affects the wrists. As many as 10 million Americans — that’s about 3 percent of the population — have some degree of… [Read More]
Arthroscopic Resection of Dorsal Wrist Ganglia and Treatment of Recurrences
Article in The Journal of Hand Surgery British & European Volume · March 2000 The arthroscopic resection of dorsal ganglia of the wrist is a new technique which was first described by Osterman and Raphael (1995). We describe our experience of arthroscopic resection of both primary and recurrent dorsal ganglia of the wrist. Download PDF… [Read More]
A New Perspective for the Distal Radius Fracture
The Extended Flexor Carpi Radialis Approach: A New Perspective for the Distal Radius Fracture Article in Techniques in Hand and Upper Extremity Surgery · January 2002 Abstract: Until recently, buttress plates were the only form of stable internal fixation available for distal radius fractures. The principle that volarly displaced fractures are approached from the volar… [Read More]
