Carpal dislocations are wrist injuries and Lunate dislocation is its severe form. Lunate and perilunate dislocations are uncommon. These injuries have significant clinical impact on the patient but are easily missed and lead to potentially devastating effect if mismanaged. This case report outlines the important clinical aspects and management of Lunate dislocation.

Endoscopic carpal tunnel release is a controversial procedure used in the treatment of carpal tunnel syndrome. Although endoscopic carpal tunnel release is associated with less incisional pain and faster recovery time than the open carpal tunnel release, opponents of endoscopic carpal tunnel release suggest that its benefits are outweighed by its higher complication rates from median nerve tran...

An in-vivo approach to the measurement of three-dimensional motion patterns of carpal bones in the wrist may have future diagnostic applications, particularly for ligament injuries of the wrist. Static methods to measure carpal kinematics in-vivo only provide an approximation of the true kinematics of the carpal bones. This study is aimed at finding the difference between dynamically and static...

To the Editor: We read with great interest the article “Evaluation of associated carpal bone fractures in distal radial fractures” by Heo et al. We would like to congratulate the authors for this study. However, the article left a few seminal questions unaddressed that we would like to draw the authors’ attention to. The authors mentioned that out of 223 fractures of the distal end of the radiu...

Carpal instability is a biomechanical alteration with a multiple pathogenesis which, if not identified and treated in time, leads to gradual articular collapse. Traumatism is known to be one of the main causes of carpal instability, while deposits of microcrystals caused by metabolic (chondrocalcinosis and gout) and congenital (ulna minus variance) diseases are less frequently involved in the p...

Abstract Background Perilunate dislocations (PLD) and perilunate fracture (PLFD) are rare but severe injuries to the wrist, usually resulting from a high-energy trauma occurring in sports injuries, motor vehicle accidents, falls or machine related accidents. Treatment of choice is early reduction with carpal transfixation, fixation refixation injured ligaments. Aims As reports on mid- long-term...

In the past ten to fifteen years, investigators have demonstrated conclusively that some injuries about the wrist have profound long-term consequences relative to function of the wrist. Problem fractures and non-unions of the scaphoid have been associated, in particular~ with major alterations in the kinematics of the wrist8’64. Considering its vulnerable blood supply~-4, irregular shape, pecul...

Rock climbers' grip techniques may result in a variety of hand injuries. Minor injuries such as soft-tissue damage, flexor tendon strain, tendinitis or tenosynovitis, joint contractures, and carpal tunnel syndrome may be treated by a primary care physician. Patients who have pulley ruptures should be referred if there is any uncertainty about the diagnosis. Because of controversies regarding su...