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With a high level of microvascular expertise and experience, hand surgeons at GHS take referrals for the full variety of hand problems. “We offer a different level of expertise in hand care because it’s all we do,” said Edwin Rudisill, M.D., chair of the Medical Staff’s Hand Surgery division and a partner in the Greenville-based private practice, The Hand Center P.A.
The Hand Center’s surgeons take trauma call at GHS, often performing free-flap and free-tissue transfers and amputations. “We rarely reattach amputated single fingers unless it’s the thumb because patients do not get complete recovery of sensation or motor function,” said Dr. Rudisill.
Nerve repairs and finger reattachments are performed in the fully equipped microvascular operating room at Greenville Memorial Hospital (GMH).
Hand surgeons also run a clinic at GHS, where they offer evaluation and treatment of infections, tennis elbow and other nonsurgical problems from the fingertips to the shoulder. The most common procedures they perform are surgeries for trigger finger, carpal tunnel syndrome, Dupuytren’s contracture, ganglion cysts, joint replacement, congenital absences, webbed fingers and repair of broken wrists and fingers. One of the four hand specialists also operates on the shoulder for rotator cuff injuries and on the elbow for lateral epicondilitis, tendon tears and medial collateral ligament repair.
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