Performs INR surgical techniques for hand injuries

• May 8, 2024

People who suffer some damage in the hand as injuries of peripheral nerve, traumatism by crushing, amputations , fractures or degenerative disorders due to rheumatic diseases, can correct the problem with different cutting-edge surgical techniques that increase the success of surgeries and reduce the time to recover. Techniques such as arthroscopy of wrist with microsurgery, nerve transfer to treat injuries, reimplantation of segments and even hand transplantation in patients with bilateral amputations, are the treatment alternatives that are carried out in the National Institute of Rehabilitation (INR) of the Ministry of Health.Alejandro Espinosa , head of the INR hand surgery service, said that of all the patients who arrive at an emergency room for injuries, 30% occur in the hand, but now with the new techniques, most can be corrected: Wrist fractures of the distal radius are the most frequent in the upper extremity and represent almost 20% of all skeletal fractures, usually affecting productive or elderly people due to a decrease in the quality of their bones. " For this type of patients, new implants In the form of a plate, which gives an angular stability and in 10 days he recovers the movement of his hand: "Before, in general, there was little possibility of recovery with the treatment and he had to wait 8 weeks with plaster to move the hand". Espinosa said that the result depends on the treatment opportunity: "if there is only deformity, the surgery has the purpose of preventing the destruction of joints, but if the damage is very advanced, it is only corrective." Another technique is the arthroscopy of wrist and small joints. It consists of making two small wounds of half a centimeter to reach the wrist joint, repair the ligaments and cartilage.

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