Hand/Wrist News

In 2017, hand surgeons have a variety of techniques to achieve what should be the goals of every type of treatment for patients with carpal tunnel syndrome: decompress the median nerve within the carpal tunnel, allow better movement of or release the transverse carpal ligament, reduce pain and restore wrist function.

Results from this study demonstrated the safety and reliability of step-cut ulnar shortening osteotomy, which provided quick recovery and early return to activities in patients treated for ulnar impaction syndrome.

The board of directors of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons have approved new appropriate use criteria for the management of carpal tunnel syndrome and the surgical management of osteoarthritis of the knee.

The Irish Orthopaedic Association had its start in the Irish Orthopaedic Club, which met during the 1950s. At the outset, membership was limited to 15 physician members who met alternately at hospitals in Dublin and Belfast, according to an online history of the Irish Orthopaedic Association.

In August, the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Penn Medicine and Shriner’s Hospitals for Children celebrated the 1-year anniversary of their collaboration on the first bilateral hand transplant on a pediatric patient.

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — Use of digital edema in patients treated for unstable distal radius fractures with locked volar plating has shown the ability to predict early functional plateau, according to a speaker here.

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — Investigators found no significant differences in the change in average pain scores or number of pain pills taken between patients who received a single nerve block or continuous nerve block for surgery of distal radius or ankle fractures.

As announced in the July issue of Orthopaedics Today Europe, EFORT and the Polish Society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology will hold the first Orthopaedic Convention for Eastern Europe on 3 to 5 November 2016 in Pozna, Poland at the Congress and Teaching Centre of Pozna University of Medical Sciences.

BELFAST, NORTHERN IRELAND — Stephen Cannon, MCh, Orth, FRCS, MBE, an Orthopaedics Today Europe Editorial Board member, and three other members of the British Orthopaedic Association were awarded Honorary Fellowships from the British Orthopaedic Association on opening day of the organization’s Annual Congress.

BOULDER, Colo. — In a presentation at the International Extreme Sports Medicine Congress, Volker Schöffl, MD, PhD, MHBA, of the Klinikum Bamberg, Germany, said finger injuries are most common among climbers and could be partly avoided through certain grip techniques.