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callPatient Satisfaction with Collagenase rather than Surgery for Dupuytren\'s Disease Collagenase injection for mild to moderate Dupuytren\'s contracture is used to rupture the Dupuytren\'s cord and improve the posture of one\'s finger without actual removal of the otherwise prominent disease. A study by Witthaut reported 71% of patients being very…
Read MoreComputers and CTS - Is there an association? To date I have been unconvinced from the literature and personal experience that use of computers ties to the development or progression of carpal tunnel syndrome. An article by Mediouni, Bodin and Dale published in the British Medical Journal Open in 2015,…
Read MoreThere is a controversy about how patients treated for carpal tunnel syndrome who depend on being able to operate independently in a wheelchair will come out. A historic article from Ranchos Los Amigos in Los Angeles years ago claimed, in general, a poor result in carpal tunnel release in paraplegics,…
Read MorePhysicians Responsibility in Making Medical Legal-Decision I have a hard time believing that board-certified doctors can’t clarify issues with patients when they come in to be seen accurately and honestly reporting that the complaints and the physicians’ findings in such a way that the answers are cut and dry with…
Read MoreRadiofrequency Lesioning for Tennis Elbow (lateral epicondylalgia) Tasto, et al in the Journal of Arthroscopic-Related Surgery, July 2005, reported on 13 patients in whom a 1-inch incision was used to expose the forearm extensor muscle origin at the elbow. They cauterized the extensor origin with a radiofrequency probe and achieved…
Read MoreBaker, et al, reported on the association between body mass index (obesity or not) and the outcomes of total knee joint replacement. The researchers found that patients derive equivalent functional benefit following total knee replacement irrespectively of their preoperative BMI. The significance of this is that the study argues against…
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