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Dr. Piñal participates in the US in the teaching panel of the triennial course on advances in wrist surgery of the Mayo Clinic

Under the title ‘Controversies in wrist surgery 2019’, the meeting counts on the collaboration of the European Wrist Arthroscopy Society (EWAS).

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Diagnosis reassessment and surgery: healing of a patient with Sudeck’s atrophy

Diana Feijoo, 40, was operated on the wrist last September. Since then she has developed a picture of severe pain, diagnosed as reflex sympathetic dystrophy or Sudeck’s atrophy.

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Patient diagnosed with reflex sympathetic dystrophy or Sudeck’s atrophy: healing by means of diagnostic correction and surgery

The patient, Camelia, 46, who works as a cook, suffers from very intense pain, lack of function and numbness in her dominant hand, the left;

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Dr Piñal: “There are many patients labeled as sick of reflex sympathetic dystrophy or Sudeck’s dystrophy who actually suffer from a pathology that we haven’t been able to identify”

As a result of his research work, Dr. Piñal believes that after diagnoses of reflex sympathetic dystrophy, we find diagnostic mistakes and lack of knowledge of a hidden pathology.

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Five worrying signs after treatment or operation on a wrist fracture

In several of our previous conversations, Dr Piñal has insisted that a normal wrist is the one we’re not even aware it’s there, so therefore new or persistent sensations can point to the false resolution of a previous pathology or trauma.

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Dr Piñal, guest of honor at the congress of the Taiwan Society for Surgery of the Hand

The meeting will take place this coming May at the Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital