An amputation is the removal of a body part. Removal could be the result of an accident (traumatic injury) or a planned amputation due to disease or a tumour.
Surgeons can perform a bone graft to repair or rebuild damaged bone in many areas of your body.
If conventional treatment for your carpal tunnel syndrome has not been successful, you may require carpal tunnel release surgery. This treatment is regularly performed by our expert hand and wrist surgeons at Nuffield Health Brighton Hospital.
Shockwave therapy is a non-surgical treatment, and works by delivering impulses of energy, targeted to specific damaged tissues within the abnormal tendon.
The need for hand surgery can arise from a variety of problems including arthritis, carpal tunnel syndrome, cubital tunnel release, de quervain’s and dupuytren’s.
If your swollen or painful joints, ligaments or tendons do not respond to conservative treatments your consultant may recommend image guided joint injections.