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Pyrocarbon thumb joint replacement
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I have seen 2 hand surgeons and one is recommending the tightrope procedure. The hand surgeon at the Mayo Clinic is recommending to avoid that procedure and to have the LRTI with suspension. I have researched the LRTI and found that you lose strength and function and have shortening of the thumb. Those are not the types of outcomes that I want, so now I am leaning back toward the tightrope procedure even though the hand surgeon at the Mayo Clinic said it has a high failure rate. I am a physical therapist and my hands are my life. If you don't mind me asking, where did you have your surgery?
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I had it at Twin Cities Orthopedics in Minnesota - I asked my hand therapist (almost 20 years of experience) about what she sees - she said she has seen one failure of the tightrope due to a fall, and one due to a construction worker returning to work too soon, out of 100 or more tightrope patients she has helped. She called it comparable to the anchovy failure rate.
Sue