Upper extremity conditions
The hand and wrist consist of dozens of bones, joints, ligaments, tendons and muscles that need to work seamlessly together in a variety of positions hundreds of times a day. They often require highly specialized medical care when they either become injured or have a pre-existing condition. Shriners Healthcare for Children — Florida provides specialized hand and wrist care to children in Florida and south Georgia. Our fellowship-trained surgeons possess the capability to care for complex wrist and hand conditions, and reconstruction as well as tissue transfer.
Conditions for which we provide care:
- Brachial plexus injuries
- Hemihypertrophy
- AC joint separation
- Little league shoulder
- Sprengel’s deformity
- Recurrent Gleno-humeral dislocations
- Panner’s disease - avascular necrosis of the capitellum
- Little league elbow
- Shoulder disarticulation
- Ulnar/radial deficiencies
- Madelung's deformity
- Keinboks disease
- Adactyly - absence of hand
- Clinidactyly
- Camptodactyly
- Ectrodactyly - lobster claw hand
- Mallet finger
- Macrodactyly
- Polydactyly - extra fingers
- Radial club hand
- Radial hypoplasia
- Ulnar club hand
- Trigger thumb
The care for hand and wrist conditions is unique in that it is a true collaboration of form and function. Surgeons and clinical team members create a custom treatment plan for each child with a hand or arm condition. By joining forces early in a child’s diagnosis, our team can work to enhance both the functionality and appearance of a child’s affected hand or arm.