Hand & Ortho Plastics

Treating hand, wrist, and forearm injuries requires special expertise.  Grady’s team of the best hand surgeons in Atlanta diagnose, treat, and prevent disorders in the hand, wrist, and forearm. They have a deep knowledge of the networks of blood vessels, nerves, muscles, ligaments, tendons, and bones that make up the hand and fingers.

Our expert hand surgeons work with patients who have experienced a hand injury, suffer a hand condition, or have mobility problems or chronic pain. Some conditions and injuries are short-term. Others require ongoing treatment. Generally, you should contact a hand specialist if you have the following symptoms:

• Pain or discomfort, even when your hand is resting
• Chronic pain or stiffness when you start an activity
• Reduced range of motion in your hand, wrist, or fingers
• A weakened grip
• Pain that extends to the elbow
• Tingling or numbness in your fingers or hand

Our experience with hand and wrist injuries and conditions is broad. We routinely treat:

• All types of trauma or infections from the elbow to the fingertips like tendon and nerve lacerations, fingertip injuries, ligament injuries, fractures and dislocations, and flexor tenosynovitis, an infection of the tendon sheath.
• Carpal Tunnel Syndrome is often caused by frequent repetitive movements, which can cause numbness, tingling, and weakness in the hand and arm.
• Scaphoid fractures or breaks the small bones of the wrist, which can cause pain and tenderness in the area just below the base of the thumb.
• Boxer’s fractures or breaks to the bones in the hand.
• Chronic conditions, including:
  • Thumb arthritis can cause severe pain, swelling, and decreased strength and range of motion, making it difficult to do simple tasks like turning doorknobs and opening jars.
  • Trigger finger, when fingers get stuck in a bent position
  • Dupuytren’s disease is a thickening of the skin that can cause one or more fingers to curl or pull sideways.
  • Ganglion cysts are non-cancerous lumps that can form on the tendons or joints of wrists and hands. While they often go away on their own, some ganglion cysts can be painful if they press on a nerve. Sometimes, they can interfere with joint movement.

Grady’s Orthopedic Center deals with 11,000 unique patient visits each year – from trauma cases to compound injuries to tendon repairs. Our orthopedic surgeons specialize in traumatology, the use of surgery to repair fractures and other injuries caused by trauma. This makes them uniquely qualified to handle the challenging orthopedic cases that other institutions often refer to Grady: complicated fractures, complex joint reconstruction, debilitating arthritis, joint issues associated with obesity, and others.

Plus, we take a “sports medicine” approach to care that aims to restore peak performance – whatever your level of activity. When you choose Grady, you’re choosing the team that:

• Put Kansas City Royals manager Ned Yost back on the field after he shattered his pelvis in a fall.
• Saved Justin Keoninh’s arm after a devastating motorcycle accident.
• Helped Reid Traylor walk again after he broke his thoracic spine – an injury few people survive.

Because the Grady Orthopedic Center’s elite staff works in Atlanta’s busiest trauma center, our providers are uniquely qualified to treat the broadest range of musculoskeletal conditions. Whether you need a hip replacement, spinal disc surgery, or complex surgery for an injury, you will be cared for by an expert.

Grady’s Orthopedics Center accepts new patients with referrals from either primary care providers or other specialists. Please ask your provider to use our Grady Referral Request Form. We will contact you to schedule an appointment.

If you are an existing Grady orthopedic patient and have a MyChart account, visit MyChart or call our scheduling line at (404) 616-1000, to make an appointment.