What is Wrist Replacement Surgery?
Wrist replacement surgery (also known as wrist arthroplasty) is a technique that has been developed in recent years in response to the need to effectively improve a wrist joint that has been severely damaged by arthritis. The majority of patients considered for this surgery have rheumatoid arthritis. When other, more conservative methods of treating disabilities in the wrist have proven inadequate, joint replacement surgery may represent the best hope for long–term improvement to the wrist joint. Dramatic advances in the procedures and devices used to replace the wrist joint may now bring profound relief within reach to those people who suffer from chronic pain and loss of motion of the wrist joint. Many people are familiar with joint replacement surgery because of the strides that have been made the past two decades in replacing shoulder, hip, and knee joints. While replacements of wrist and ankle joints—joints of the smaller extremities—are more uncommon procedures; they also hold gr
