M oday, O cber 9, 2017 Numerous surgical techniques exist for the treatment of first carpometacarpal joint osteoarthritis, however it unclear if outcomes differ between the available techniques. Our feasibility study aimed to determine the practicality of recruiting patients for, and performing, a larger-scale health-related quality of life and functional outcomes study comparing two surgical t...

OBJECTIVES To study the impact of articular hypermobility on the clinical and radiological features of hand osteoarthritis (OA) and to investigate whether hand osteoarthritis associated with hypermobility should be considered a separate subset of hand OA. METHODS Fifty consecutive female patients with clinical hand OA and thumb base symptoms were examined for hypermobility according to the Be...

A case of multiple carpometacarpal joints volar dislocation in a young man of 25 years of age is reported. He presented with pain and deformity of his left hand immediately after road traffic accident. He was unable to move his left hand. X-rays of the affected hand showed volar dislocation of all four medial carpometacarpal joints. Dislocated joints were reduced, fixed with K-wires and immobil...

INTRODUCTION Isolated dislocations of the trapezio metacarpal joint without associated fracture has been reported very rarely in the literature. There are reports of associated injuries like fracture of the trapezium, dislocation of the metacarpophalangeal joint and fractures of the base of the thumb metacarpal. CASE REPORT Authors report a case of isolated carpometacarpal dislocation of the ...