Surgical procedures


This list is an example of common procedures which are undertaken:

  • - Open reduction and internal fixation of hand, wrist, elbow, clavicle and shoulder fractures
  • - Flexor and extensor tendon repair, tendon transfer, tendon grafting and reconstruction
  • - Trigger finger release, trigger finger injection, tendon release, De Quervains release, tenosynovectomy, tenolysis
  • - Carpal tunnel release, carpal tunnel injection, revision carpal tunnel release
  • - Cubital tunnel release/ulnar nerve decompression and transposition
  • - Nerve release, repair and grafting, microsurgical repair of nerves and vessels
  • - Aspiration of excision/removal/biopsy of hand swellings, ganglion, mucous cyst, giant cell tumor etc.
  • - Dupuytrens contracture: fasciotomy and fasciectomy
  • - Wrist ligament repair and reconstruction: scapholunate ligament, lunotriquetral ligament etc.
  • - Percutaneous and open Scaphoid fracture fixation, fracture non-union reconstruction and bone grafting
  • - Corrective osteotomy and bone grafting with fixation for mal-union of fractures of the hand and distal radius etc.
  • - Scapho-trapezio-trapzoid joint (STT) arthrodesis or excision arthroplasty
  • - Proximal row carpectomy
  • - Total wrist replacement or fusion
  • - Wrist arthroscopy
  • - Small joint replacements in the hand and wrist
  • - Thumb carpometacarpal joint: trapezectomy, arthroplasty (replacement) and arthrodesis.
  • - Thumb metacarpophalangeal joint ligament repair, reconstruction, fusion/arthrodesis
  • - Tennis and Golfer’s elbow surgery (TOPAZ)
  • - Shoulder Arthroscopy
  • - Shoulder Replacements