Problems After Carpal Tunnel Surgery: What’s Normal and What Isn’t
Most problems after carpal tunnel surgery are normal healing: pillar pain, a weak grip, slow-to-lift numbness. Find your symptom, and the few signs that need a call today.
Hand Therapist Nigel Chua
Trapeziectomy Complications: What’s Normal, What Isn’t and When to Call
Most trapeziectomy complications are minor and settle. The ones to catch early are infection, CRPS and stiff fingers. Judge the result at a year, not month 3.
How to Sleep With Cubital Tunnel Syndrome: Elbow Angle, Pillows and Night Splints
Sleep with the elbow straighter: no more than a right angle, ideally around 30 to 45 degrees of bend, arm by your side or resting on a pillow, never tucked under your head. A towel wrap or night splint keeps it there, and mild cases often settle over 6 weeks to 3 months.
Mallet Finger Still Droops After Splinting: Normal Lag or Failed Healing?
A small droop after 6 to 8 weeks of splinting is common and often improves with a few more weeks of night splinting. A tip that drops most of the way back, straight after the splint comes off, usually means the tendon didn’t heal, and the usual answer is more full-time splinting.
Mallet Finger Left Untreated: What Happens, and Is It Too Late to Splint?
Left untreated, a mallet finger usually heals with the fingertip permanently drooping, and in some fingers the middle joint slowly bends backward into a swan neck. Splinting is still worth trying up to about 3 months late, and after that the goal changes.
Can Carpal Tunnel Come Back After Surgery? True Recurrence vs Never Fully Released
Yes, but true recurrence is uncommon and usually happens years later. More often, symptoms that seem to come back are a nerve still recovering, a release that never fully worked, or a different problem altogether. The timing tells you which.
Will Trigger Finger Go Away on Its Own? When Waiting Works and When It Doesn’t
Sometimes. A finger that only clicks or catches can settle on its own over weeks to months, especially if you cut back hard gripping. A finger that locks every day rarely goes away by itself, and one left stuck bent for months can stiffen for good.
Ganglion Cyst and Vitamin Deficiency: Is There Really a Link?
There’s no good evidence that a vitamin or mineral deficiency causes ganglion cysts, and no supplement has been shown to shrink one. About half go away on their own, which is why so many remedies seem to work.
When Is It Too Late to Fix a Broken Finger? The Week the Window Closes
A crooked or twisted broken finger is easiest to fix in the first 1 to 2 weeks. By about 3 weeks the bone starts to set, and by 6 weeks it has healed in whatever position it’s in. It’s rarely truly too late, but after that the fix is an operation, not a splint.
Splint Care: Cleaning, Fit Problems & When to Call
How to clean a hand or wrist splint without ruining it, what to do when it rubs, slips or feels too tight, showering and sleeping in it, and the warning signs that mean call your hand therapist today.