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Trauma & Reconstruction
Conditions and injuries affecting this area, and the treatments used for them.
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What are you experiencing?
These are symptoms, not diagnoses. Each one can have more than one cause.
- Numbness & tinglingPins and needles, or a hand that feels dead or asleep
- Pain & achingAching, sharp pain, or pain that wakes you at night
- WeaknessA weak grip, or dropping things without meaning to
- SwellingA swollen hand, wrist or finger
- Difficulty moving a fingerTrouble straightening or bending a finger
- Change in shapeA finger or wrist that looks bent or out of line
- A recent injuryA fall, a cut, a crush or a blow to the hand
- Cold, pale or blue fingersColour change, or fingers that go white in the cold
Injuries & complex problems
Complex Hand Trauma
Severe pain, deformity, open wounds, bleeding, and loss of function following significant hand trauma, which may involve multiple fingers or structures.
Read articleDistal Radius Fracture
Pain, swelling, deformity, and inability to move or bear weight through the wrist following an injury.
Read articleFinger Fractures
Pain, swelling, bruising, deformity, and difficulty moving the injured finger following trauma.
Read articleMicrosurgical Reconstruction
Presentations vary widely depending on the underlying injury, ranging from tissue loss and exposed structures to absent blood supply in an injured…
Read articlePeripheral Nerve Injury
Numbness, tingling, weakness, or pain in the distribution of the affected nerve, ranging from mild sensory changes to complete loss of function.
Read articleScaphoid Fracture
Pain and swelling on the thumb side of the wrist, tenderness in the "anatomical snuffbox," and pain with gripping or wrist movement…
Read articleSoft Tissue Injuries
Wounds, skin loss, bruising, swelling, and pain, with severity ranging from minor cuts to significant tissue defects.
Read articleTendon Lacerations
Inability to bend or straighten the affected finger or wrist, a visible wound, and often bleeding at the injury site.
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Treatments for this area
If something here matches what you are experiencing, it is worth having it looked at properly.
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