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Expanding Your Practice into Tetraplegia (IC06) - 2012 Annual Meeting (Handouts)
Faculty: Dan A. Zlotolow, MD, Catherine Curtin, MD, Vincent R. Hentz, MD Scott H. Kozin, MD
Learning Objectives:
- Recruit patients with Tetraplegia to consider surgical options.
- Convince physiatrists and spine surgeons of the merits of hand surgery for Tetraplegia
- Examine patients with Tetraplegia and understand their special needs
- Perform the 3 most common tendon transfers in this population
- Develop post-operative protocols.
Description
The goal of this instructional course is to provide the community of
academic hand surgeon with a roadmap, both logistically and clinically,
to be able to care for this underserved and deserving patient
population. This is an area of hand surgery which requires no special
skills, reimburses handsomely, serves a true need in our communities,
and is personally rewarding. The participant will learn 1) strategies
for patient recruitment, 2) health concerns in this unique population,
3) physical examination, 4) surgical planning and techniques, and 5)
post-operative rehabilitation. Detailed surgical techniques will be
presented for biceps-to-triceps tendon transfers, brachioradialis to
either ECRB and FPL, ECRL to FDP, and ECU opponensplasty.