Osteonecrosis Archives - Healthhype https://healthhype.com/tag/osteonecrosis Current Health Articles on Symptoms, Diseases and Treatment Wed, 27 Aug 2014 00:41:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://healthhype.com/wp-content/uploads/logoicon.png Osteonecrosis Archives - Healthhype https://healthhype.com/tag/osteonecrosis 32 32 Kienbock’s Disease – Lunate Osteonecrosis https://healthhype.com/kienbocks-disease-lunate-osteonecrosis.html https://healthhype.com/kienbocks-disease-lunate-osteonecrosis.html#respond Tue, 22 Jun 2010 18:58:53 +0000 http://www.healthhype.com/?p=9759 Wrist pain is one of the most irritating pain, especially if present on the dominant hand. A painful restriction of the hand movement puts tremendous functional constraints on a person. Thus, it may amount to huge economic losses in the form of frequent absence from work. Even treatment of such diseases requires the costly expertise of a hand surgeon. All in all, diseases of the hand mean loss of skill as well as wealth. Let us try and understand the details of this disease and restrict the damage to a minimum. Kienbock’s disease is a wrist pain causing disease, which is specifically associated with the wrist bone lunate. The process by which it occurs is called osteonecrosis. Osteonecrosis is a rapidly occurring osteoporosis, which causes death and fracture of a bone due to lack of blood supply. This disease was named after Dr. Robert Kienbock, who was a radiologist from Vienna. He observed and described the changes occurring in the lunate bone as early as 1910. The wrist bones (Picture 1) are small and glide over each other to bring about versatility in wrist movements. Disease of a single bone can affect the dynamics of the wrist and cause a [...]

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]]> https://healthhype.com/kienbocks-disease-lunate-osteonecrosis.html/feed 0 Kienbocks’s Disease Symptoms https://healthhype.com/kienbocks-disease-symptoms.html https://healthhype.com/kienbocks-disease-symptoms.html#comments Mon, 02 Aug 2010 20:33:25 +0000 http://www.healthhype.com/?p=9762 Kienbock’s disease is limited to the wrist, but it can cause symptoms ranging from wrist pain to even frank depression. This is mainly because of the functional restraints imposed by the disease. It is also related to the inability to find complete relief from symptoms despite trying several treatment options. The exact cause of the disease is still not properly understood. Hence, the treatment options offered to a person, are highly variable, depending on the experience of the orthopedic surgeon. The lack of consensus, regarding treatment of Kienbock’s disease, is mainly due to the variability of factors causing the disease. Moreover, sometimes improper technique of surgery, leaves many patients with more disability, than with the initial disease. Hence, it is prudent to consult an orthopedic surgeon, who has specialized in hand surgery, who has reputable finesse in his work. Symptoms of Kienbock’s Disease Wrist pain, without any known injury, is by far the most common symptom in Kienbock’s disease. The wrist pain is initially on and off and comes only during lifting weights. Patients of Kienbock’s disease have come to a variety of specialists, with regard to completely different problems, which have been later attributed to an insidious wrist pain [...]

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