Wrist and Hand Microsurgery
Microsurgery combines magnification with specialized precision tools and advanced operating techniques that enable surgeons to repair small blood vessels, arteries, veins, and nerves. It is especially useful for repairing human tissue after trauma, when transplanting tissue from one part of the body to another, and when reattaching amputated or partially severed body parts.
Obviously, hands and wrists are some of the most important and complex parts of the body with many extremely small working parts. Microsurgery enables hand surgeons like Dr. Rehman to observe the tiny and delicate parts in the hand and wrist and repair them precisely. Dr. Rehman performs microsurgery to procedures to treat and tendons, nerves, blood vessels, and joints in the hand and wrist.
When Hand Microsurgery Is Recommended
When the finer structures of the hand are injured by disease or trauma traditional surgery is often not enough to repair the damage that has been done. Before the advent of microsurgery, these fine structures could not be repaired with accuracy – often leaving patients disabled.
But today, in the following cases, hand microsurgery is often used:
- Hand & finger reconstruction to salvage severely injured joints and limbs
- Replantation / reattachment of a severed thumb or finger(s)
- Tissue transfer – such as skin grafts – for improved healing of severe & non-united fractures
- Nerve repair that restores motion and sensation
- Major hand injuries with damage to the blood vessels and nerves. Thanks to microsurgery technology, these structures can be repaired directly and fully, resulting in restored use of the hands and fingers to varying degrees.
Benefits of Hand Microsurgery
Microsurgery Improves Function of the Hands
With microsurgery technology, patients who have suffered severe hand injuries are likely to have more of their hand function restored, because the hand surgeon has an enhanced ability to repair damage to nerves and blood vessels.
Even when full restoration of the use of the hands is not possible, microsurgery patients typically experience greater use of their hands – including better grip strength, sensation, hand function and finger movement.
Microsurgery Improves Appearance of the Hands
Microsurgery also leads to better appearance of the hands tends than traditional hand surgery. Because microsurgery enables reattaching thumbs and fingers, applying skin grafts, and other major reconstructive procedures, patients are often left looking ‘whole’ and/or much like they did before their injury or illness.
Greater Surgical Success with Microsurgery
Because of the ability to repair blood vessels and nerves, and to reattach severed body parts, the greatest benefit of hand microsurgery is a vastly increased rate of surgical success. As a result, patient satisfaction rates are higher with hand microsurgery than with traditional surgery.
Wrist and Hand Microsurgery | Detroit Area
If you are suffering from a condition in your fingers, wrist, elbow, or arm, that requires complex surgery, contact Detroit area board certified hand surgeon Dr. Uzma Rehman for a comprehensive evaluation and consultation.
Choosing a skilled and experienced board-certified hand surgeon is the best way to ensure that you preserve or restore full use, mobility, function and sensation to your injured hand, wrist or arm.
