The advent of arthroscopic surgery to wrist pathologies in the early 90s was a revolution on existing open intervention techniques.

After an initial phase of wavering in its general application, the entry onto the scene of specialists in hand surgery made possible the emergence of a set of arthroscopic procedures that improve the diagnostic capacity, limit the damage to tissues and reduce the aesthetic impact and the recovery lapse.

The Spanish surgeon Francisco del Piñal was part of the group of pioneering physicians in addressing through arthroscopy wrist ailments such as fractures of the distal radius, the scaphoid, the carpal bones or fracture malunions. With more than two decades of successful interventions, Del Piñal developed the technique of dry arthroscopy allowing surgery without saline. This absence of fluids significantly improves the possibilities and results.

His work in this area was published in the official journal of the American Society for Surgery of the Hand (ASSH) in January 2007 (‘Dry Arthroscopy of the Wrist: Surgical Tecnique’). Today, this dry mode is the arthroscopic wrist surgery technique most often used worldwide.

Del Piñal has exhibited his technical advances in arthroscopy in numerous international fora and integrated the panel of teachers in various programs of specialization as the Nordic Wrist Arthroscopy Course, among others.

In this new video of his blog, Dr. Del Piñal offers an overview of arthroscopic wrist surgery from both the technical and patient expectations point of view (content in Spanish).