Dr. Neil Wells INC. MD, FRCSC

If your hand is impaired in any way, surgery may improve your condition. This type of very specialized surgery can treat diseases that cause pain and impair the strength, function and flexibility of your wrist and fingers. Surgery seeks to restore to near normal the function of fingers and hands injured by trauma or to correct abnormalities that are congenital or acquired. Specifically, hand surgery can treat:

 

• Acute Post Traumatic Hand Injuries

• Arthritic Hand Conditions

• Arthroplasty (Joint Replacement)

• Arthroplasty Thumb Surgery

• Boutonniere Deformity Repair

• Bone Grafting

• Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Release

• DeQuerain's Tenosynovitis

• Distal Radio-Ulnar Joint

• Dupuytren's Needle Aponeurotomy

• Dupuytren's Contracture Palmar Fasciectomy

• Fractures of the Fingers, Hand & Wrist

• Hemi-Hamate Arthroplasty

• Ligament Tears and Ligament Reconstruction

• Microsurgery

• Nerve repairs, Nerve Grafting, Neurolysis

• Scaphoid Fractures - Primary Repair and Late Reconstructions

• Steroid Injections

• Tendon Repairs

• Tendon Transfers

• Tenolysis

• TFCC Repairs (Triangular Fibrocartilage Complex): Open and Arthroscopic

• Trauma

• Trigger Fingers

• Tumours

• Ulnar Collateral Ligament (Skier's Thumb)

• Wrist Arthroscopy

• Wrist Salvage Surgery (Fusions & Partial Fusions)

• Sports Hand Injuries