What To Expect

Our patients can expect compassionate, personalized care, which includes:

  • Comprehensive evaluation of the hand or arm injury
  • Review of normal function
  • Diagnosis and presentation of the best treatment options
  • A treatment plan tailored to helping the patient resume daily activities as quickly and safely as possible

Most surgical procedures are performed on an outpatient basis and incorporate minimally invasive procedures such as arthroscopy.

Guthrie offers Surgical treatment options to the following conditions:

  • All hand and wrist disorders
  • Burns
  • Carpal tunnel syndrome (open & endoscopic)
  • Cubital tunnel syndrome
  • DeQuervains Tendonitis
  • Dupuytren’s contractures
  • Fractures of the hand and wrist
  • Ganglion cysts
  • Hand infections
  • Kienbock’s disease
  • Masses of the upper extremity and hand
  • Mucous cysts
  • Nailbed Injury
  • Nerve Injury
  • Numbness and Tingling
  • Osteoarthritis of the hand and wrist
  • Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy (RSD)
  • Replantation of fingers and hands
  • Rheumatoid arthritis of the hand and wrist
  • Scaphoid (or other carpal bone) fractures
  • Scaphoid non-union
  • Soft tissue injury & reconstruction
  • Tendon injury: Extensor
  • Tendon injury: Flexor
  • Tendon Transfer Surgery
  • Trigger finger

Guthrie offers Non-Surgical treatment options of hand conditions:

  • Laser treatment/release of burn contractures of the fingers or hands
  • Steroid injections for carpal tunnel syndrome or other painful neuropathies or joints
  • Trigger finger injections
  • Xiaflex® injections for Dupuytren’s contractures