Hand and upper extremity surgery is a highly specialized field that requires expertise in both plastic and orthopedic surgery techniques. Being trained in both disciplines enables Dr. Brown to address the entire spectrum of diagnoses in the hand, wrist, forearm and elbow and deal with complex injuries to tendons, nerves, bones, joints, blood vessels and skin.
Some of the more common conditions Dr. Brown treats are:
Hand
- Finger fractures
- Extensor and flexor tendon injuries
- Finger and fingertip amputations
- Finger dislocations
- Trigger fingers
- Ligament injuries
- Digital nerve injuries
- Joint contractures
- Neuromas
- Nail bed injuries
Forearm
- Fractures to the radius and ulna
- Radial tunnel syndrome
Elbow
- Lateral and medial epicondylitis
- Radial head fractures
- Distal bicep tendon ruptures
- Triceps tendon ruptures
- Elbow dislocations
Wrist
- Carpal tunnel syndrome
- Distal radius fractures
- Scaphoid fractures Scaphoid non-unions
- Wrist dislocations
- Ligament injuries to the wrist
- TFCC tears
- De Quervain's tenosynovitis
- Ganglion cysts
- Guyon's canal syndrome
- Flexor and extensor tendon injuries
- Radial and ulnar artery injuries
- Fractures of the distal ulna
- Ulna impaction syndrome