What is Hand surgery?
Hand surgery refers to many procedures, plastic surgeons who perform hand surgery to restore hand and finger function. They try to make the hand look as normal as possible. Hands help us to do several functions like eat, dress, write and earn a living. Joint motion, tendon gliding, and contraction are required for sensation and movement. Hand surgery means vast surgery on the hand. Surgeons who perform surgery on hand not only restore the normal functioning of the hand but also improve the appearance of the hand.
Who requires Hand Surgery?
Hand surgery is done because of some trauma that has affected the hand, rheumatic arthritis, congenital hand deformity, and infections. Patients who suffer from many underlying conditions go for hand surgery to restore the hand to the ideal form.
What are the types of Hand Surgery?
Hand surgeries are of different types depending on the underlying problem
- Carpal Tunnel: If you are experiencing no sensation of pins and needles in the fingers and numbness in the hand. If the symptoms persist then surgery is needed to release the pressure on the nerve.
- Trigger Finger: It can be treated without the need for surgery, sometimes surgery is needed to free the tendon that has thickened and got stuck in the tunnel.
- Ganglion: If you are suffering from a ganglion cyst in the hand. Ganglion cysts are lumps in the hand or cysts near the joint. They are benign fluid-filled cysts that develop from ligaments in the hand. The cyst is painful and disturbs your daily life. It takes a minor surgery to remove the cyst.
- Dupuytren’s Surgery and Injection: Several cases of Dupuytren’s contraction that is bending one or more fingers permanently causes the finger to curl down into the palm of your hand. Surgery is needed to free the tissue that is bending down the fingers.
- Tendon Injury: If a tendon ruptures due to injury in the hand or rheumatoid arthritis causes the tendon to rupture then minor surgery is needed to repair the hand.
- Thumb Arthritis: If you are suffering from the trapezium bone that has twisted in the hand surgery may have to operate to remove the trapezium or the joint to ease the pain.
- Fracture: If you have suffered a fracture in your hand or your wrist then hand surgery is needed to heal the hand properly. Depending on the severity of the fracture hand surgery is needed.
What are the risks of Hand Surgery?
Risk of anesthesia and common bleeding are the common problems that a person faces after surgery. The following risks depend on the surgery been performed:
- Infection
- Incomplete Healing
- Loss of Sensation
- Blood clot formation
The benefits of hand surgery are relief from pain, infection, better appearance of the hand, the function of the hand so that you can do the daily chores.