


Gaya Bar wins the Israeli judo championship after her serious wrist injury intervened by Dr Piñal
The judoka Gaya Bar won the victory last June in the junior national championship (U-21) of Israel, one year after the intervention of Dr Piñal to treat a perilunate dislocation of her wrist.

Keynote lecture by Dr Piñal at the 15th edition of the congress of the European Federation of Societies for Microsurgery

Dr Piñal, first Spanish surgeon elected as an honorary member of the Australian Hand Surgery Society
The distinction recognizes Piñal’s medical career and his close personal and professional ties with Australia.
The Australian Hand Surgery Society (AHSS) has appointed Dr Francisco del Piñal as an honorary member.

Triangular fibrocartilage rupture and ulnar styloid fracture: dry arthroscopy surgery
The patient, 19, presents instability in the left wrist and pain at its ulnar edge. The symptoms, which limit its functionality, appear after a second injury (he had suffered a previous wrist fracture in childhood) and have their origin in a pseudoarthrosis of the ulnar styloid and the rupture of the insertion of the triangular fibrocartilage (TFC) in the ulnar fovea (bony cavity next to the styloid).

Dr. Piñal, guest speaker at the International Conference of the Egyptian Society for Surgery of the Hand and Microsurgery
The Spanish surgeon addressed various aspects of wrist surgery and the latest developments in thumb reconstruction during the two days of the meeting.

Functional recovery and elimination of pain through surgery in patient diagnosed with complex regional pain syndrome or Sudeck’s atrophy
Sandra Flores, 31, is diagnosed with complex regional pain syndrome or Sudeck’s atrophy after a previous ligamentoplasty intervention in the right trapeziometacarpal joint (thumb ligament reconstruction).

Dr Piñal, international keynote speaker at the congress of the Australian Hand Surgery Society
The Spanish surgeon will address the latest advances in arthroscopic surgery, treatment of nerve injuries or reconstructive microsurgery among other issues.

(Update 2) Media, TVE: Dr. Piñal discovers a procedure for the cure of cases of reflex sympathetic dystrophy
The Spanish surgeon will present his research, based on 29 analyzed clinical cases, before the American Society for Surgery of the Hand (ASSH) (news originally published on November 5,
