Failed Cubital Tunnel Surgery

August 4, 2016

Failed Cubital Tunnel Surgery Recurrent or persistent cubital tunnel/ulnar nerve symptoms or failed cubital tunnel surgery. Risk of Cubital Tunnel Syndrome Recurrence For the past 10 years there has been a lot of interest in the failure rate of cubital tunnel surgery. In review of the English literature up to…

Smoking and Orthopaedic Surgery

July 19, 2016

Research demonstrates that there is an increased risk of infection and reduced rate of healing among people who smoke. A person has to be away from cigarettes/tobacco for a month before the negative wound effects of it are eradicated from a person's body. No wonder spine surgeons refuse to operate…

Highly Trained Staff at NHSI

June 25, 2015

Highly Trained Staff at NHSI Completion of Cast Fundamentals Workshop Dena, the nurse here at Nebraska Hand & Shoulder Institute, P.C., has obtained her certificate from the National Association of Orthopaedic Technologists on 3/26/15 for completing a cast fundamentals workshop. Dena has been employed at Nebraska Hand & Shoulder Institute,…

Treatment Choices for Tennis Elbow

May 5, 2015

Arthroscopy for tennis elbow anybody? As Americans we like choices. Some surgeons pursue impractical choices of treatment for patients. One of them is arthroscopic treatment of tennis elbow. Another is radiofrequency lesioning and yet another one for general purposes is platelet-rich plasma. Platelet-rich plasma may well have a role, but…

Nutrition and Recovery

May 1, 2015

Nutrition and Recovery Nutrition and recovery from carpal tunnel, cubital tunnel and tarsal tunnel release surgeries Have you ever thought about the role of nutrition in healing? Maybe too much emphasis is given to idiosyncratic diets and their effects on lifestyle and longevity for specific ailments. Most of the hoopla…