Patient Information Leaflets

Leaflets Resources

Hand Conditions

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
Cubital Tunnel Syndrome
Dupuytrens Disease
Trigger Finger
Ganglion Cyst
De Quervain’s disease
Hand Injury
Mallet finger
Tennis elbow
Thumb – arthritis
OA Base of Thumb

Hand Treatments

Steroid Injection
Needle aponeurotomy
Outpatient antibiotic therapy (OPAT)
Plaster – volar slab
Scaphoid – Fixation and bone grafting
Staged tendon reconstruction
Tenolysis
POP cylinder casting
Thumb – arthritis – Conservative treatment
Trapeziectomy
Wearing a plaster casts – Advice for parents and young people

Before Surgery

Awaiting your Hand Surgery
A guide to your consent form
Hand Surgery
Anaesthetic
Painkillers after your day case operation
Managing one handed

After Surgery Leaflets

Painkillers after your day case operation
Care/ Removal of stitches
Following your hand surgery day case
Following your hand surgery day case – Polish
Massage – swelling and scarring
Nerve injury or repair – re-education following loss of sensation
Cold intolerance following hand injury
Silicone gel for scarring
Trapeziectomy – post surgery
Nerve injury or repair – re-education following loss of sensation

Hand Rehabilitation Information Leaflets

Fractured metacarpal exercises
Carpal tunnel release exercises
Extensor tendon repair exercise
Flexor tendon repairs – relative motion flexion regime
OA Base of Thumb
Basal Thumb Arthritis
Kinesiology taping – scars
Kinesiology taping – swelling
Lycra finger stalls

Hand Rehabilitation Information Leaflets

Massage – swelling and scarring
Therapeutic putty – exercises
Thumb – stability and strengthening
Thumb – stretching exercises
Thumb EPL tendon repair (Early motion regime 1 – 4 weeks)
Ulnar nerve transposition
Wrist – fracture – following
Wrist – proprioceptive re-education & movement control exercises
Wrist exercises

Hand Diagnosis Information Leaflets

Nerve Conduction Studies
Denervation Assessment

Hand Splints Information Leaflets

Capener splint
Central slip repair – small arc motion
EPL repair and EIP transfer weeks 0-4 dynamic splint
EPL repair and EIP transfer weeks 4-6 dynamic splint
Flexion splints & straps –
increase joint movement
Flexor tendon repairs – short splint
Splints – dynamic (protection)
Thumb EPL tendon repair (Early motion regime 1 – 4 weeks)
Thumb EPL tendon repair (removal of splint at 4 weeks)
Swanson metacarpophalangeal joint replacement

Other Hand Patient Information Leaflets

Open appointment
Osteoarthritis education group
Skin camouflage service
Skin camouflage
CBT Therapy