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August 16, 2019
Opioid Use Among Hand Surgery Patients There has recently been a load of attention given to opioid use and abuse in the United States. There is evidence that most patients are being given a lot more medication than they have required to treat potential postoperative pain. In a large study…
July 22, 2019
Cryoneurolysis to Treat the Pain and Symptoms of Knee Osteoarthritis By R. Radnovich, MD, et al. Osteoarthritis & Cartilage, Vol. 25, (2017): 47-1256. This over-verbose, prospective study involved 180 patients with degenerative arthritis of the knee taken off NSAIDs and supplements, etc. for pain. Fifty-nine of them were in the…
July 16, 2019
Nerve Conduction Study vs. Ultrasonography The ultrasound marketers are really pushing the possible use of ultrasound in diagnosis of nerve entrapment. Nerve conduction study, however, has the advantage of many years of use in having established itself as a very useful tool in the objective evaluation of nerve entrapment. Ultrasound…
November 5, 2018
Denervation as a Means of Solving Base of Thumb Arthritis Patients who are intolerant of or do not respond to NSAID for the treatment of basilar thumb arthritis suffer pain and weakness of pinch, thus loss of function. Reconstruction of the basilar thumb joint ties up the hand for about…
October 23, 2018
The Negative Effect of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome on Sleep Quality Not much has been written specifically about evaluating sleep in patients with carpal tunnel syndrome but it is clearly a big problem. It seems like about 7 out of 10 people seek treatment for carpal tunnel syndrome specifically because pain…
