Hand/Wrist News

BOSTON — Although Medicaid expansion has helped improved patient health care coverage, results presented at the American Society for Surgery of the Hand Annual Meeting showed it did not improve resource utilization and appropriateness did not increase among patients with upper extremity trauma.

BOSTON — Using a validated prediction model when a patient undergoes unilateral carpal tunnel release surgery may make it possible to predict the patient’s eventual need for contralateral carpal tunnel release surgery, according to results presented here.

BOSTON — Patients undergoing ambulatory hand surgery who had higher pain catastrophizing scores experienced increased postoperative opioid use and medication refill rates, as well as greater levels of pain, according to results presented at the American Society for Surgery of the Hand Annual Meeting, here.

Major League Baseball players who underwent repairs of full thickness thumb ulnar collateral ligament tears all achieved return to play status and the mean return to play was 8 weeks among in-season players, according to study results.

Results published in Medicine showed arthroscopic bone grafting and percutaneous K-wire fixation effectively treated scaphoid nonunion with thorough assessment and comprehensive management.

A single intramodular injection of 40 mg adalimumab in patients with Dupuytren’s

Although conservative treatment of idiopathic ulnar impaction syndrome yielded improvements in objective and patient-reported outcomes, results published in Scientific Reports showed several nonmodifiable patient factors lead to a higher likelihood of treatment failure.

Healio.com/Orthopedics features articles in which orthopedic surgeons discuss prevention of orthopedic injuries commonly seen during summer activities such as swimming, diving, use of fireworks, home improvement and lawn mower accidents.

BARCELONA, Spain — Patients with first carpometacarpal arthritis who underwent trapeziectomy experienced pain relief and improvements in hand function, according to results presented at the EFORT Annual Congress.

SAN FRANCISCO — Results presented at the American Society for Surgery of the Hand showed no significant differences in recurrence rates among patients with Dupuytren’s contracture treated with either needle fasciotomy or collagenase injection.