Reconstructive surgery for traumatic cases can involve the simple repair of an injured hand structure, reattachment of a severed limb, to actually transplanting a portion of the limb such as toe-to-thumb transplant.
 

What is most common hand surgery?

Plastic surgeons who perform hand surgery seek to restore hand and finger function. But hand surgeons also try to make the hand look as normal as possible, as well.

Hand reconstruction surgery may be done for many reasons, including:

• • Hand injuries
  • Rheumatic diseases, such as osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis, that change and damage the structures in the hand
  • Degenerative changes to the structures in the hand
  • Problems or defects of the hand that are present at birth, or congenital
  • Infections of the hand

Carpal tunnel surgery is one of the most common hand surgeries performed followed by Dupuytren’s Contracture and Trigger Finger.

Carpal tunnel syndrome occurs when swelling around the wrist tendons puts pressure on the median nerve and tendons running through an actual tunnel to the fingertips.

Dupuytren’s Contracture is marked by a thickening and tightness of the Palmer fascia causing one or more of the fingers (and rarely the Thumb) to bend into the palm.

Trigger Finger is caused by a thickening on the tendon catching as it runs in and out of the sheath. You can often feel this swelling in the palm as you move the finger.