Conditions and injuries of the finger, hand, wrist, forearm and elbow: what they are, how they behave, and when they stop being minor.
Most desk-related hand pain is a dose problem, not a posture problem. What the equipment can and cannot fix, which conditions this actually turns out to be, and the changes that do the work.
What to do in the first three days of new hand or wrist pain: what to rest and what to keep moving, ice or heat, what a splint is for, and the things that must not wait until Monday.
Showering, dressing, eating and the bathroom, done one-handed. The practical setup nobody covers at discharge, and the week-before list that makes it easier.
The questions that change your outcome — realistic results, what you lose, what happens if you wait, and the rehab plan most people never think to ask about.
Which brace suits which condition, what the extra money actually buys, what to skip entirely, and the wear patterns that leave people stiffer than they started.
Wide-awake hand surgery with no tourniquet and no general anesthetic. Why moving your fingers during the operation makes the result better, and what it feels like.
Scans find findings, not pain. What X-ray, ultrasound, MRI and CT each see, which scary words are routine, and how to tell if a finding is actually yours.
A steroid injection buys a window, it doesn’t fix the problem. Where it works, where it backfires, how many is too many, and how to use the good weeks.
A hand that won’t close is stiff, missing a tendon, or missing a nerve signal. One simple test at home separates them, and it decides how urgent this is.
Which fingers tingle tells you which nerve is involved, and what else tingles tells you where it is trapped. The map, and what the pattern means.