There are many instances when a hand doctor can improve you life and help you eliminate obstacles that may be holding you back—so don’t ignore hand problems or put off treatment.
If you have been struggling with arthritis of the hand joints, or have suffered a finger, hand or wrist injury, you owe it to yourself to see a NJ hand specialist and nothing less than an experienced hand surgeon will do. If you’ve broken your hand (or think you might have) in the past few days or broke a finger years ago that never healed properly, you should see a skilled hand surgeon.
If you have treatment resistant carpal tunnel syndrome or trigger finger (especially if your profession or lifestyle requires agile fingers), or you have congenital defects of the hand or other hand problems—you need a dedicated hand surgeon.
You Deserve the Services of a Top Hand Surgeon
The hands are complex and intricate structures that help us communicate with one another, take action, give comfort, enjoy and understand the world around us. Don’t trust your hands to an inexperienced hand doctor—even if he or she just graduated from the best medical school and emerged from a prestigious residency.
It takes a high skill level—but also years of experience in complex hand surgery—to properly treat hand ailments requiring surgery. When you have a concern about hand health or limitations to your hand function, choose a true expert: a top NJ plastic and reconstructive hand surgeon, for hand surgery.
Your hand doctor should have experience, training and skills in:
- Reconstructive surgery of the hand: Even if your medical problem is not serious enough to require complex surgery, and you don’t require hand reconstruction, choosing a northern NJ hand surgeon with the most comprehensive knowledge of the hand, (a reconstructive surgeon), will typically ensure the widest set of treatment options and the best results for you.
- Complex microsurgery of the hand: This experience indicates that your surgeon can repair nerve damage in the hand and maintain a healthy blood supply to the hand and fingers. An experienced hand microsurgeon lowers your surgical risks and avoids injuring the delicate structures of the hands. Even the hands of the biggest guy are complicated, intricate structures, where all the small parts must come together perfectly. There hands require ideal alignment for strength and maximum gripping ability. A NJ hand microsurgeon offers the best treatment results for all parts of the hand, including the bones, tendons, ligaments, muscles, nerves and blood vessels of the hand.
- Aesthetic hand surgery: Your hands help you communicate with the world, so they should look as good as they function. Choose a NJ hand doctor skilled in plastic surgery of the hand, so that you’re certain to receive the attention to detail needed to restore both function and appearance to the hands.
How Can Hand Surgery Improve Your Life?
A New Jersey hand specialist can help you live a fuller life by:
- Restoring hand function
- Improving finger agility
- Relieving pain in the wrist, hand, fingers or thumb joints
- Improving the sense of touch
- Repairing nerves and reducing numbness/tingling
- Increasing the range of motion
- Performing joint replacement if necessary
- Creating fingers from toes and other joints or performing finger transplants
- Relieving pain in the hand, wrist, fingers, thumb or palm
- Making former work and leisure activities possible again
- Allowing you to participate more comfortably in additional social, artistic, sports and leisure activates; whether you are a musician, a builder, a golfer, a diplomat or a caretaker of children, hand specialist can help
- Improving the appearance of the hand and correcting unsightly damage to the hand from burns, improperly healed past injuries to bones or skin, joint disease and more
- Avoiding visible scarring of the hand
- Improving hand strength
- Bringing you greater self confidence
- And much more
Expert hand doctors successfully treat:
- Arthritis of the hand, wrist, thumb and finger joints, including the effects of osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis
- Hand injury due to accidents
- Hand injury due to repetitive stress, such as recurring carpal tunnel syndrome
- Misshapen fingers and hands
- Permanently curled fingers or permanently straight (stiff or unbendable) fingers
- A broken hand (fractured hand) or broken finger
- Fibrosing diseases such as diabetic stiff hand syndrome or Dupuytren’s contracture
- Scar tissue from previous hand surgery or injury
- Sports injury / athletic injury to the fingers, thumb, hand or wrist
- Congenital defects of the hand and fingers
- Hand pain, numbness and stiffness
- Hand weakness, a weak grip or immobility of the fingers causing you to drop things, avoid shaking hands or lose dexterity
- And more
Do I Really Need Hand Surgery?
Often, hand surgery is not needed to treat hand injury or disease. You should always make certain, however, by trusting your hands only to a top NJ hand surgeon. Early, proper treatment of hand ailments gives you the best chance of complete recovery so that you will retain full use of your hands.
When you fracture any bone near a joint in the hand, you should always see a hand specialist to make sure that the broken bone will heal correctly, and to make sure that you don’t need surgery.
Most hand fractures don’t require surgery, but your hand surgeon offers you the most treatment options and will be able to treat your fracture in the best way possible. If surgery is not necessary, or if you should try additional conservative measures first, your hand surgeon will tell you, and help you obtain the best care.
The Cost of an Expert Hand Doctor
Your hands are so important to your life that, ideally, you should put cost out of your mind when looking for the best hand doctor in NJ. Realistically, however, cost is a factor for most people.
The good news is that health insurance covers a large percentage of hand surgeries, depending upon your specific coverage. What we advise is that you set cost aside, at least initially, and don’t let it hold you back from meeting with top hand doctors.
You should also keep in mind that there are a number of factors that go into surgical cost, including region of the country and whether surgery takes place in the hospital, or as an outpatient. At Cohen/Winters we have an accredited surgery center adjacent to our offices, so hospital costs will rarely be a factor.
In addition, seeking hand surgery in New Jersey affords you access to experienced hand specialists, without the high price tag that you would find in NYC. Our office is always happy to help you with information needed by your insurance or assistance with details like flying into NJ for hand surgery.
Consult a Specialized Hand Doctor in NJ
At Cohen/Winters, we offer consultations to help you learn about the possibilities for treating your hands. Whenever you have a physical problem that disrupts your life, distracts you or limits you, you should see an expert to find a solution.
That’s why we recommend that you look for the best hand doctor, with this highest skill level and years of experience, for treatment of hand pain, limitations, injuries or ailments. But you also need the hand doctor that is right for you.
At Cohen/Winters Aesthetic and Reconstructive Surgery, we’re here to help you define the direction of your hand treatment and determine if you are a good candidate to benefit from hand surgery. Set up a no-charge consultation by contacting our Bergen County office.
