Specialized Care For Hand Surgeries

With its many small bones, tiny blood vessels and delicate nerves, the human hand is a marvel of engineering—and a serious challenge to both surgical repair and post-surgical rehabilitation. To meet those challenges, Virginia Hospital Center has created a team of surgeons and therapists with concentrated, specialized training in the repair and rehabilitation of injuries to the lower arm and hand.

The team includes several orthopedic surgeons and one plastic surgeon, all of whom have completed a specialized fellowship in hand surgery. When a patient enters Virginia Hospital Center with an injury to the arm below the elbow, one of our specially-trained surgeons sees the patient as quickly as possible. The goal of the program is to perform any necessary surgery for hand-injury patients within the first 12 hours after the injury, if possible, and also to ensure that the patient receives the essential rehabilitation services following surgery. With this rapid surgical intervention and highly specialized rehabilitation, patients can achieve maximum mobility after a hand injury.