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Hand and Wrist Injuries Treatment/ Rehabilition · 2019-09-05 · Principles of Fracture Treatment...
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Hand and Wrist Injuries
Treatment/ RehabilitionSelected Shoulder Issues
Dr. Mark Robinson
Mater Private Clinic
South Brisbane, Redlands
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Outline of Presentation
⚫ Common Fractures and Hand Injuries
⚫ Some Elbow Issues
⚫ Rotator Cuff Tears
⚫ Frozen Shoulder
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Problems in General
Practice
⚫ The Patient’s Problems
⚫ The General Practitioner's Problems
⚫ The Specialist’s Problems
⚫ When to make it the third option
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Principles of Fracture
Treatment
⚫ Pain Relief⚫ Splints/Casts, Ice, Elevation, Analgesics
⚫ Prevent Mal-union⚫ Restricts Movement, Pain, Deformity
⚫ Prevent Non-union⚫ Avascular necrosis, Osteoarthritis
⚫ Protect Surrounding Structures⚫ Spinal Cord Injuries, Long Bone # (Thomas Splint)
⚫ With Associated Injuries⚫ Multiple Fractures, Open Injuries
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Undisplaced vs
Displaced Fractures
⚫ Intact Periosteal
Sleeve
⚫ Protect the sleeve
⚫ Protect the bone
until union occurs
⚫ 4-8 weeks
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Mallet Finger 1
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Mallet Finger 2
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Other Distal Phalangeal
Fractures
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Volar Plate Fracture 1
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Volar Plate Fracture 2
Outcomes
⚫ Instability
⚫ Mild Stiffness
⚫ Fixed Flexion
Deformity
Treatment
⚫ Hand Therapy
⚫ Extension Block Splint
⚫ Surgery if:-
⚫ Subluxed
⚫ Impacted
⚫ Displaced
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Phalangeal Fracture
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Metacarpal Fractures
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Phalangeal and
Metacarpal Fractures
⚫ Undisplaced fractures
⚫ Look for rotation
⚫ Intact periosteal sleeve
⚫ Protect the injured digit
from its idiot “life
support system”
⚫ Prevent further injury
displacing the #
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Splinting and Buddy
Taping
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Scaphoid Fracture 1
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Scaphoid Fracture 2
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Hand Problems
⚫ Trigger Finger
⚫ de Quervain’s Tenosynovitis
⚫ Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
⚫ Ganglions
⚫ Dupuytren’s Contracture
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Management Cascade
Professor John K Stanley
1. Do nothing, put up with it.
2. Physiotherapy, Splints, Activity Modification
3.Injection, Local anaesthetic and steroid
4.Surgery
5. Dr. Harry (veterinarian) Option
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Trigger Finger(Stenosing Tenovaginitis)
⚫ Flexor tendons trapped by mouth of A1 pulley
and develops a nodule
⚫ Pain in palm over MP joint
⚫ Catching in flexion and/or extension
⚫ Locking in flexion or extension
⚫ Treatment Injection
Surgery
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Trigger Finger
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de Quervain’s
Tenosynovitis
⚫ Two tendons to base of thumb caught in
tunnel APL EPB
⚫ Pain on radial side of wrist
⚫ Swelling and tenderness over radial styloid
⚫ Finkelstein’s test positive
⚫ Treatment Rest/splints
Injection
Surgery
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de Quervain’s
Tenosynovitis
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Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
⚫ Compression neuropathy of median nerve
⚫ Numbness, pins & needles, nocturnal
wakening
⚫ Sensory changes, Phalen’s test, +/- NCS
⚫ Treatment Rest/splints
Injection
Surgery
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Carpal Tunnel
Syndrome
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Body Homeostasis
⚫ Upright posture during the day
⚫ Reclined position at night
⚫ Slight fluid accumulation in upper limbs
⚫ Symptomatic in mornings
⚫ Diuretics used as treatment in past
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Nerve Conduction
Studies
⚫ Measure average velocity of nerve
conduction
⚫ Median Nerve in Carpal Tunnel
⚫ Sensitivity 93%
⚫ False Negative 7%
⚫ Ulnar Nerve in Cubital Tunnel
⚫ Sensitivity 70%
⚫ False Negative 30%
⚫ Uncomfortable!
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Ganglions
⚫ Fluid filled cysts, Synovial Fluid
⚫ Wrist, flexor tendons, DIP joints
⚫ Pain, reduced ROM, cosmetic
⚫ Treatment Outcomes▪ Reassure 80%
▪ Aspirate 60%
▪ Rupture/ Steroid 50%
▪ LA Excision 30%
▪ GA Excision 5-10%
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Ganglions
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Dupuytren’s Contracture
⚫ Nodular contracture of the palmar fascia
⚫ Hereditary, trauma
⚫ Cords, nodules, pits
⚫ Tender nodules, contracted cords
⚫ Surgery - excision of cords, (Injection)▪ aggravation of other areas
▪ high recurrence rates
▪ risks stiffness of finger and neurovascular injury
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Elbow Problems
⚫Tennis and Golfer’s Elbow
⚫Ulna nerve compression
⚫Olecranon bursitis
⚫Elbow stiffness
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Tennis and Golfer’s
Elbow
⚫ Insertional enthesopathy,CEO, CFE
⚫ Angiofibroblastic hyperplasia
⚫ Accumulative micro/macrotrauma
⚫ Wrist extensors, finger flexors
⚫ Treatment Rest/splints
Injection
Surgery
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Tennis and Golfer’s
Elbow
⚫ Avoid / modify initiating activities
⚫ Physio / Hand therapy, straps and splints
⚫ Injection
⚫ up to 3 attempts, steroid, blood patch
⚫ rarely successful after 6 months
⚫ Surgical release +/- repair, >50% GS Loss
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Ulna Neuropathy
⚫ Compression of ulna nerve behind medial
epicondyle
⚫ 3 anatomical variants
⚫ Numbness, weakness, poor hand control
⚫ Treatment Postural changes
Night splints
Surgery
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Ulna Nerve Compression
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Olecranon Bursitis
⚫ Inflammation of olecranon bursa
⚫ infective or inflammatory
⚫ Fluid filled sac, thickened reactive lining
⚫ Treatment Rest/splints
Antibiotics
Surgery
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Stiffness of Elbow
⚫ Loose bodies, capsule tightness, OA
⚫ Frequently post traumatic
⚫ X-ray, CT scan, 3D reconstruction
⚫ Treatment Reassure
Arthroscopy
Arthrotomy
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Stiffness of Elbow 2
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Shoulder Problems
⚫ Frozen Shoulder
⚫ Calcific Tendonitis
⚫ Shoulder Ultrasound
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Joints of the Shoulder
⚫ Gleno-humeral
⚫ Capsule of Joint
⚫ Acromio-clavicular
⚫ Scapulo-thoracic
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Biomechanics of the
Shoulder
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Frozen Shoulder
Inflammatory Condition
of Joint Capsule
⚫ Adhesive Capsulitis
⚫ Pericapsulitis
⚫ Shoulder Hand
Syndrome
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Frozen Shoulder
⚫ Roll over to turn off alarm clock
⚫ Into shower, can’t wash hair or back
⚫ Struggle to dress
⚫ Hurts to drive to work
⚫ Open door at parking
⚫ Helped at work by co-workers, whispers
⚫ Drive past gym on way home
⚫ Reaching in pantry
⚫ Changed for bed
⚫ Another night of broken sleep
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3 Clinical Phases
⚫ Painful⚫ Constant Pain
⚫ Progressive Loss of Motion
⚫ Stiffness⚫ Less Pain, Still Stiff
⚫ “Box of Comfort”
⚫ Resolution⚫ Box Gets Bigger
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Typical Presentations
Post-traumatic
⚫ Shear type injury, slip/fall
⚫ Slight pain at time
⚫ Increasing pain and progressive stiffness⚫ Weeks / months later
⚫ X-ray Normal
⚫ Ultrasound Abnormal
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Typical Presentations
Clinical
⚫ Distressed when disrobing
⚫ Deltoid wasting, mild tenderness at GT
⚫ GLOBAL LOSS OF MOTION
⚫ Especially External Rotation
⚫ Aggravated by Physiotherapy
⚫ No relief from Subacromial Steroid Injection
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Typical Presentations
Clinical
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Typical Presentations
Investigations
⚫ X-rays Normal
⚫ Ultrasound
⚫ Biceps effusion, biceps tendonitis
⚫ Subacromial bursitis, partial tear
⚫ Too stiff to fully examine
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Typical Presentations
Pictures
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Treatment
⚫ Painful Phase
⚫ Hydrodilatation, steroid
⚫ Stiffness Phase
⚫ MUA, A/scopic release
⚫ Resolution
⚫ (physiotherapy)
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Outcomes
⚫ Randomised study
⚫ 50 patients, 2 arms, 2 year follow-up
⚫ 1. Injection, MUA, physiotherapy
⚫ 2. Analgesics, exercise the arm
⚫ No difference at 2 years
⚫ Near full return of movement.
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Can I hurt the Shoulder?
⚫ Yes
⚫ You can make it
sore.
⚫ No
⚫ You can’t damage it.
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Calcific Tendonitis
⚫ Dystrophic calcification in Rotator Cuff
⚫ Large deposits = Symptomatic
⚫ Small deposits (<3mm) = Assymptomatic
⚫ Ultrasound Guided Aspiration & Injection
⚫ 67% Success Rate
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Results
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Rotator Cuff “Tears”
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Rotator Cuff Tears
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Recently discussed
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What is “Tear”?
⚫ The Oxford Dictionary defines “tear”
⚫ Verb⚫ Pull apart or to pieces with force
⚫ Make a hole or rent in this way
⚫ Pull violently or with some force
⚫ Violently disrupt or divide
⚫ Go or leave hurriedly
⚫ Noun⚫ Hole etc. caused by tearing
⚫ Torn part of cloth etc.
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What is “Tear”?
⚫ Are you meaning noun
or verb
⚫ Patients and GPs open
the reports
⚫ Is this “tear” or “a tear”
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Rotator Cuff Tears
⚫ Tempelhof et al 1999
⚫ 411 assymptomatic individuals 23% incidence
⚫ 50 – 59 13%
⚫ 60 – 69 20%
⚫ 70 – 79 31%
⚫ 80 + 51%
⚫ IFSS 2001 70-75 years Assymptomatic
⚫ 1/3 normal, 1/3 partial, 1/3 full thickness
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Flip Side of Rotator Cuff
Tears
⚫ May not need surgery
⚫ Trauma = energy
⚫ May settle non-
operatively
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Stem Cell Therapy
⚫ Choice Australia 2017 Publication:
⚫ https://www.choice.com.au/health-and-
body/hospitals-and-medical-procedures/medical-
treatments/articles/stem-cell-therapy
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Summary
⚫ Management of Simple Hand Fractures
⚫ Non traumatic Upper Limb Conditions
⚫ Approach to Common Shoulder Problems