The hand speaks in a language doctors finally understand.
Three conditions account for 80% of what brings patients to our door. Each has a name, a cause, and — most importantly — a solution measured in weeks, not years.
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
That burning at 2 a.m. — the hand that wakes you up. The median nerve runs through a tunnel of bone and ligament at your wrist. When that tunnel narrows, it squeezes the nerve like a kink in a garden hose.
Untreated over months, the muscle at the base of your thumb begins to waste. The pinch that once opened a jar becomes impossible. This is why timing matters.
Cross-section · Wrist
Trigger Finger
The finger that locks when you reach for the wrench. A nodule forms on the tendon sheath — the tendon catches, then releases with a painful snap. Assembly workers. Surgeons. New parents lifting at 3 a.m.
De Quervain's Tenosynovitis
The thumb that burns when you lift your phone, your infant, a coffee mug. The tendons running along the base of the thumb are inflamed inside their sheath — a condition that worsens with every grip.
Tendon & Nerve Repair
For the weekend guitarist whose pinky curled inward over six months. For the machinist who severed a flexor tendon in a moment of inattention. Micro-instruments smaller than a grain of rice reconnect what was severed — under magnification, suture by suture.
The procedure, in plain language.
No euphemisms. No surgical theater mystique. Here is what happens, measured in minutes and millimeters.
Average procedure duration
From first incision to final suture. You walk in, you walk out.
Incision length
Smaller than a grain of rice. A scar you'll forget is there.
Until stitches dissolve
Absorbable sutures. Nothing to remove. Nothing to schedule.
Until light hand use
Typing, eating, turning a page. The small freedoms return first.
Local anesthesia only.
You are awake. You hear music if you want. You go home the same hour.
The day of your procedure.
You arrive. We numb your hand.
A single injection at the wrist. No general anesthesia. No IV. The hand goes quiet in about four minutes.
The incision: 3 millimeters.
Through that opening, instruments finer than a human hair access the compressed nerve or caught tendon.
The release.
The ligament is divided. Pressure lifts from the nerve. Many patients feel warmth returning to their fingers before the procedure ends.
You leave. Today.
A small dressing. Instructions on paper. A follow-up call at 48 hours. That's it.
No referral needed. Same-week appointments available.
Week one, week four, week twelve.
Recovery is not a straight line. But it has a direction — and that direction is always toward opening your hand wider than before.
The hands that came back.
Assembly workers, musicians, new parents, athletes. The common thread: they stopped waiting and booked an evaluation.
"Back on the line in 5 weeks. The shift supervisor didn't even know I'd had surgery."
Marcus T.
Assembly line technician
"My pinky moves. That's all. That's everything."
Priya S.
Weekend guitarist
"I can lift her at 3 a.m. without waking up the whole house with my cry of pain."
Anika R.
New mother
"Twelve weeks after surgery, I threw a curveball. My surgeon said that wasn't on the schedule. I said it was."
James O.
Weekend league pitcher
"I can hold a pencil for four hours straight. The drafting table is mine again."
David C.
Architect
"I knew the anatomy. I thought I could manage it. I was wrong. Now I refer my own patients here."
Nisha M.
Surgeon (hand patient)
You've already decided.
Book your hand evaluation.
Same-week appointments. No referral required. Your symptom data travels with you — you won't re-enter a single thing.
Book Your Hand Evaluation →Takes 2 minutes. Appointments available this week.
Download our illustrated recovery guide.
24 pages of illustrated rehabilitation exercises, recovery timelines, and the questions to ask before any hand surgery. Written for patients, not surgeons.
- Illustrated daily exercises (weeks 1–12)
- What to expect at each recovery stage
- Red flags: when to call us immediately
- Grip strength benchmarks by week
Same-week hand evaluations available.