Tratamiento rehabilitador tras cirugía artroscópica de la inestabilidad de la muñeca

Objectives: To design specific rehabilitation programs for the different types of wrist instability.

Method: With the biomechanical knowledge available and taking into account the latest discoveries on mechanoreceptors in the wrist, and after performing a literature review in which few publications were found on the specific subject, it was decided to design and prepare different programs for the rehabilitation of scapholunate and lunate-pyramidal instabilities, and after arthroscopic repair of the triangular fibrocartilage.

Results: These protocols are now being used in our Rehabilitation Department, with very acceptable results.

Conclusions: Rehabilitation needs to be carried out after surgery, and appropriate to each type of instability in order to achieve optimal results. With the experience that we now have, our next objective will be to conduct retrospective studies to examine the functional results after the prescribed treatments.