Double Dorsal Capsulodesis in the Treatment of Chronic Scapholunate Instability: Description of a New Surgical Technique and Case Report

Introduction: The scapholunate ligament (SLL) injury can cause wrist pain and instability. There is a wide variety of surgical techniques used for the treatment this lesion, such as dorsal capsulodeses, tenodeses with flexor or extensor tendons, bone-ligament-bone graft.
 Objective: To describe new technique SLL aiming to stabilize dissociated carpus double capsulodesis.
 Materials methods: By presenting case 36-year-old male security officer who injured his left in motorcycle accident, procedure align proposed. long-term outcome also described
 Results: proposed surgery was successfully performed; it had excellent clinical functional results, no complications. Long-term restoration carpal alignment observed radiographs evidenced after two years follow-up, patient asymptomatic full recovery.
 Conclusion: appears be reproducible, effective easy perform. Unlike described by Blatt, aim one restore physiological position lunate bone adding second capsulodesis, believed an essential factor maintenance kinematics.