Patient Education: Hand & Wrist
Use these educational resources to learn more about your injury, condition, or treatment.
All treatments aren’t right for all patients. All physicians do not perform all procedures. Your doctor will diagnose your injury or condition and talk with you about the treatments that are right for you. Each patient is unique.
Injuries & conditions
- Arthritis: base of the thumb
- Carpal tunnel syndrome
- Cubital tunnel syndrome
- Digital mucous cyst
- Distal radius fracture (broken wrist)
- de Quervain’s syndrome
- Dupuytren’s disease
- Ganglion cysts
- Mallet finger
- Osteoarthritis of the hand
- Scaphoid fracture
- Triangular fibrocartilage complex (TFCC) tears
- Trigger finger
- Ulna collateral ligament injury (skier’s thumb)
- Volar plate injury
- Wrist fractures
- Wrist sprain
Procedures
- Artificial joint replacement of the finger
- Carpal tunnel release surgery
- Cubital tunnel syndrome surgery
- Digital mucous cyst excision
- Digital nerve repair
- Finger fracture fixation
- Finger joint fusion (DIP joint)
- Ganglion cyst excision
- Limited palmar fasciectomy for Dupuytren’s contracture
- Needle aponeurotomy for Dupuytren’s contracture
- Surgery for basal joint (thumb) arthritis
- Surgery for de Quervain’s syndrome
- Trigger finger release
- Ulnar collateral ligament repair surgery
- Wrist arthroscopy
- Wrist fracture surgery
- Wrist fusion