Wrist Arthroscopy

Wrist arthroscopy is a valuable diagnostic and treatment procedure that allows your surgeon to look inside your wrist using a thin viewing instrument called an anthroscope. Wrist arthroscopy is a specialized technique that is minimally invasive and lets your surgeon get a close look inside a complex joint to diagnosis problems, and also treat many conditions on the spot.

A narrow tube containing a fiber-optic video camera is inserted through a small incision and the picture from inside your joint is transmitted onto a video monitor. Because the incisions are smaller than conventional open surgery, pain, swelling and stiffness are minimal and recovery is faster. Recently, the wrist has become the third most common joint to undergo arthroscopy.

Wrist arthroscopy is often the most ideal way to effectively assess the cartilage surfaces on all wrist bones and clearly evaluate the ligaments between the bones. It is used to repair some types of joint damage using special surgical instruments designed for wrist arthroscopy, which are inserted through other tiny incisions. It can also be used to assist in the reduction of fractures, to remove ganglions of the wrist and to assess or even treat various types of arthritis.