- The purpose of hand surgery is the treatment of a broad range of problems that affect the hand whether they result from cuts, burns, crushing injuries to the hand or disease process.
- Hand surgery includes procedures that treat traumatic injuries of the hands including closed fist injuries, genital deformities, repetitive stress injuries, deformities caused by arthritis and similar disorders affecting the joints, nail problems and tendon repair.
- Hand surgery is the field of medicine that deals with problems of the hand, wrist and forearm. Hand surgeons care for these problems with and without surgery.
- Patient needs to hospitalized for 2-3 days.