Tips to Successful Flexor Tendon Repair and Reconstruction with WALANT.

Hand Clin · May 2023 · Review

Lalonde DH, Sepehripour S

Birmingham Women's and Children's National Health Service Foundation Trust, Steelhouse Lane, Birmingham, UK

Hand & Upper Extremity

SUMMARY — THE REDUCTIONThis article shares practical tips for improving flexor tendon repair and reconstruction outcomes using WALANT, leveraging intraoperative patient movement to refine technique.
Abstract, as published

WALANT has generated many changes that have improved flexor tendon repair and reconstruction in the last 10 years. Seeing awake unsedated educable patients move repaired reconstructed tendons during the surgery has changed how we do surgery and therapy in many ways for the better. This article offers many tips on how to get better results in using these new techniques with the help of WALANT.

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