Hand & Wrist Care

If you’re finding it harder to do daily tasks because of hand pain, look to the fellowship-trained hand surgeons and certified hand therapists at Torrance Memorial Lundquist Orthopedic Institute. They’re skilled in treating the delicate bones, nerves, and soft tissues in your wrist and fingers. With our help, you’ll feel better and regain more use of your hand.

Conditions Treated

Think of Torrance Memorial when you need care for almost any medical problem affecting your hand, wrist, or fingers.

Finger Pain & Injuries

Flexor tendon injury – Problem with the muscles that let you bend your fingers
Mallet finger – Bent fingertip that won’t straighten
Ring avulsion – Damage to soft tissue after you pull a stuck ring off your finger too quickly
Trigger finger – Pain and a popping or catching feeling at the base of your finger or thumb, which may lock in place and snap straight

Hand & Wrist Pain & Injuries

Boxer’s fracture – Broken bone along the outside of your hand, often due to hitting something with your fist
Carpal tunnel syndrome – Pinched nerve in the wrist that causes pain, a weak grip, and numbness or painful tingling in the fingers
De Quervain’s tenosynovitis – Pain and swelling at the wrist or base of the thumb due to tendon inflammation
Distal radius fracture – Broken radius (one of two large bones in your forearm), which may be called a Colles or Smith fracture depending on which way the broken bone bends
Dupuytren’s contracture – Thick knots of tissue in your palm that make your fingers stay bent toward the hand
Radial tunnel syndrome – Forearm and hand pain due to a pinched radial nerve in your arm
Scaphoid fracture – Break in your wrist’s small bones
Sprained wrist – Stretched or torn ligament
Wrist tendonitis – Painful, swollen tissue that connects muscle to bone

Conservative, Nonsurgical Care

Ask your doctor about nonsurgical treatments that can help your hand heal and treat your symptoms. You may benefit from:

Splint, brace, or cast that supports an injured area during recovery
Biologics, natural substances that support your body’s healing process
Injections of cortisone, a steroid that treats painful inflammation

Hand Therapy

Hand therapy at Torrance Memorial helps you gradually heal after an injury or hand surgery. With one-on-one guidance from a certified hand therapist, you’ll learn how to:

Do daily activities more easily
Rebuild strength, coordination, and range of motion
Restore feeling in a numb hand or fingers

Sports Medicine

Don’t let a hand injury keep you from exercise, hobbies, or physical labor any longer than necessary. Reach out to Torrance Memorial’s sports medicine specialists. They’ll work with you closely to help you get back to activities as soon as possible.

Hand & Wrist Surgery

In some cases, surgery is the best way to repair an injury and provide long-term pain relief. Your orthopedic surgeon can perform procedures such as:

Carpal tunnel release (endoscopic) – Eases painful pressure on a wrist nerve using a minimally invasive approach, which requires only small incisions and leads to a faster recovery
Cyst removal – Treats a fluid-filled lump on the skin
De Quervain's release – Relieves pressure and friction on the tendons at the thumb base so they glide freely
Fracture repair – Treats a broken finger, distal radius (wrist bone) or other bone by holding it in the correct position so it can heal
Fusion – Joins finger or wrist bones together to prevent painful movement
Trigger finger release – Lets you flex or straighten your finger normally again

Learn more about orthopedic surgery at Torrance Memorial.