Hand surgery is of particular interest to Dr. Brown who did a Hand Surgical Fellowship as an extra year of surgical training. Hand surgery encompasses posttraumatic injuries; overuse syndromes, genetically inherited disorders, neurologic and vascular diseases and injuries, tendon and muscle injuries, arthritic complications, bone fractures, as well as surgery of the wrist and elbow. It is truly more appropriately termed surgery of the upper extremity.
Specific conditions that can be surgically or medically treated include; birth deformities, dupytren’s contracture, trigger finger, dequervain’s tenosynovitis, carpal tunnel syndrome, ulnar nerve entrapment, radial nerve entrapment, ligament tears and wrist instability, fractures, tendon repair, joint replacement, and reconstruction of tissue loss. Hand therapy is an important adjunct to both surgical and nonsurgical care.
Most surgeries are performed on an outpatient basis with a wide variety of anesthetic techniques being utilized based on the procedure performed.