Contributing Causes to the Development of Cubital Tunnel Syndrome
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May 17, 2021
The cause of cubital tunnel syndrome has long been debated. Really the only proven cause is prolonged elbow flexion for hours at a time, sleeping with one’s hands up by her face, particularly sleeping prone, or traumatic with scarring and possible anatomic distortion as with an elbow fracture. The remote possibility of…
November 5, 2018
Patients who are intolerant of or do not respond to NSAID for the treatment of basilar thumb arthritis suffer pain and weakness of pinch, thus loss of function. Reconstruction of the basilar thumb joint ties up the hand for about a month and then it takes awhile to get all…
October 23, 2018
Not much has been written specifically about evaluating sleep in patients with carpal tunnel syndrome but it is clearly a big problem. It seems like about 7 out of 10 people seek treatment for carpal tunnel syndrome specifically because pain or numbness in their hands is keeping them awake at…
October 18, 2018
The majority of pain complaints about the shoulder relate to a person feeling pain in the front and sometimes towards the front and side of the shoulder. This is true whether the problem is from a torn rotator cuff tendon, bursitis, tendinitis or rupture of the biceps tendon, or advanced…
October 11, 2018
For the past 35 years I have worked assiduously to avoid causing opioid dependency, i.e. addiction, in my patients. I am proud of the track record that I have set by carefully planning necessary surgery to minimize pain by using tiny incisions whenever possible using the best, most modern techniques;…
