Surgery to the Hand

Throughout the course of life, painful alterations can happen to one of our most important and most used organs, our hand. This can ultimately lead to serious implications or even impairments for our daily life. The so called "Carpal Tunnel Syndrome" is a rather frequent example for such an impairment. Others being ganglia, "snapping fingers", or different forms of benign tumors.

In all of these cases we put our year-long expertise and special operative techniques to work to restore the function of your hand, as well to relieve you from pain associated with these impairments.

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

This frequent disease identifies itself most oftenly through nightly pain and a numb feeling, mostly in the first three fingers. Reason for this is the narrowed passageway for one of the nerves leading to the handd on the inner side of your wrist.

An incision of the tendinous "roof" of this nerve relieves it from external pressure, and immediately restores a pain-free status and full function.

The procedure can be performed in local as well as regional anaesthesia.

Your ability to work is mostly restored after app. 14 days.

Dupuytren's Disease

It's basically a formation of a hypertrophic scar tissue around the tendons, nerves, and vessels of the inner hand. Ultimately, it leads to an involuntarily fixed flexion of single or multiple fingers.

During the operation, under utmost care the scar tissue is being removed from those structures vital to the mobility of the handIf or if not an operation seems to be necessary and appropriate for you can only be determined in a personal examination.

Following the operation, you'll be wearing a plaster-cast for about a week, followed by intensified physical therapy.

Your ability to work will be restored after app. 14 days.

Snapping Finger

A thickening of one of the flexor tendons, and a consequently impaired passage through some of the medial ring-shaped finger tendons leads to the phenomenon of a "snapping finger".

In most of the cases, your thumbs or the ringfinger is involved.

Immediately above the place of narrowed passage, a small incision of only 5 mm can be performeed unter local anaesthesia, splitting the thickened band, and thus opening the passageway, so that the flexor tendon can move smoothly again.

You are allowed to move the finger freely immediately after the procedure.

Back to work is after app. 10 days.

Ganglion

They are to be found mostly at the dorsal (outer) portion of wrist and fingers. Underlying reason is an expansion of the joint capsule. Depending on their size and location, they can be removed in local or regional anaesthesia.

You're back to work after 14 days.