


Xabier Tolosa, Basque pelota player, will return to the courts after 6 months due to a serious injury.
The injury, which had been unsolvable for months, was finally successfully treated with an arthroscopy performed by the renowned microsurgeon Francisco Piñal, a specialist in hand surgery.

Dr. Piñal’s training program – Dr. Dmitry Pavlovich, Coimbra University Hospital Centre

Patient testimony: Sudeck’s syndrome elimination “Emotionally I was terrible. It was very difficult to lead a normal life”.
Elizabeth, tells us how 7 years ago, she rode a scooter that had been given to her son, with the bad luck that she fell and fractured her right wrist.

Patient testimony: Sudeck’s syndrome elimination ‘As she said, it has been 12 years of purgatory’.
Rosario had been suffering from Sudeck’s syndrome or complex regional pain syndrome for 12 years. She and her father, Manuel, tell us what they had to go through.

Dr. Piñal shares his experience on thumb reconstruction at the 62nd Italian Congress of Hand Surgery
During his speech, Dr. Piñal addressed the innovative techniques of thumb reconstruction, one of the most complex and relevant areas in reconstructive surgery of the upper extremities.

Speedway champion Anders Thomsen finds solution to wrist injury thanks to Dr. Piñal
He travelled expressly to Madrid in search of a definitive solution to a wrist injury which, after three previous operations, had not been resolved and was causing him limitations in his performance.

Patient testimony: fractured tibia, fibula and ankle. ‘My son was going to have his leg amputated’.
Learn the inspiring story of Erik, a young man from Jaén who suffered a terrible car accident at the age of 17, facing 17 operations and the threat of amputation.

Dr Francisco Piñal, guest of honour at the joint Ibero-Latin American Hand Surgery Congress and the XXVIII Congress of the Portuguese Hand Surgery Society.
