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29 Ιαν 2024 · A trapeziectomy is a surgery used to treat thumb arthritis when conservative treatments fail. It involves removing a bone in the wrist, called the trapezium, and replacing it either with a tendon from your own body or a metal or silicone implant. Recovery times can vary from several weeks to several months.
In use for more than 40 years, LRTI is the most commonly performed surgery for thumb arthritis. The damaged joint surfaces are removed and replaced with a cushion of tissue that keeps the bones separated. To accomplish this, surgeons remove all or part of the trapezium bone in the wrist at the base of the thumb.
It occurs between the thumb metacarpal (long bone) and the trapezium, which is one of the smaller bones in the wrist. The medical name for the joint is the ‘first carpo-metacarpal joint’, commonly known as the basal joint of the thumb. It is a saddle-shaped joint which gives the thumb a large range of motion.
12 Ιαν 2022 · CMC joint arthroplasty is a surgical procedure used to replace the trapezium bone of the thumb joint with a tendon graft, or a silicone or metal implant to treat carpometacarpal joint osteoarthritis after conservative treatments fail to relieve symptoms.
Trapeziectomy with tendon sling – the bone is removed and part of a tendon of your thumb or wrist is used to wrap around the thumb bone and roll up into the gap to support the thumb during healing (you will not notice a functional problem by loss of your tendon).
23 Φεβ 2015 · The most common technique used involved the removal of the trapezium bone at the base of the thumb (trapeziectomy) plus reconstruction of the ligament that holds the bones between the thumb and index finger together (ligament reconstruction) and filling the space left behind by the removed trapezium with spare tendon from the forearm to support ...
16 Ιουν 2022 · One of the bones in your thumb joint (trapezium) is removed. Joint replacement (arthroplasty). All or part of the affected joint is removed and replaced with a graft from one of your tendons.
