Hand/Wrist News

State and local governments across the U.S. have reached an agreement with Johnson & Johnson, McKesson, Cardinal Health and AmerisourceBergen that will provide up to $26 billion to fight the opioid epidemic, the parties involved announced.

Complications within the first year after trapeziectomy with a Weilby sling for treatment of thumb-based osteoarthritis may increase the chance of poor clinical outcomes, according to results presented at the Virtual EFORT Congress.

Results presented at the Virtual EFORT Congress showed an increase in the occurrence of osteophytes and decrease in cartilage thickness in the distal and proximal interphalangeal joints of elite climbers in a 10-year period.

Results presented at the Virtual EFORT Congress showed joint replacement for treatment of carpometacarpal joint osteoarthritis led to better function, but a higher rate of complications and revision surgeries compared with trapeziectomy.

Register results showed worse DASH scores at 1 year for patients with combined distal radius and distal ulnar fractures vs. those with any type of distal radius fracture, a presenter said at the Orthopaedic Research Society Annual Meeting.

WAILEA, Hawaii — In this video from Orthopedics Today Hawaii 2021, Thomas F. Varecka, MD, spoke about the newest data on common hand and wrist injuries, such as distal radius fractures, carpal tunnel and scaphoid fractures.

Premenopausal women who underwent bilateral oophorectomy had a higher risk for severe carpal tunnel syndrome compared with women who did not have the procedure, according to a study published in Menopause.

Most buprenorphine treatment provided in the U.S. was prescribed by a small proportion of clinicians, an analysis of retail pharmacy records showed.

Erosive hand osteoarthritis tends to target older adults and women with preexisting OA, and is associated with severe articular structural damage and radiographic progression, according to data published in Arthritis & Rheumatology.

Compared with the Masada classification, the Jo and Gottschalk classifications offered better reliability for describing lesion characteristics of hereditary multiple osteochondromas in pediatric patients, according to a speaker.