Tendon Repair – An orthopedic nurse is a nurse who specializes in treating patients with bone, limb, or musculoskeletal disorders. Nonetheless, because orthopedics and trauma typically follow one another, head injuries and infected wounds are frequently treated by orthopedic nurses.
Ensuring that patients receive the proper pre-and post-operative care following surgery is the responsibility of an orthopedic nurse. They play a critical role in the effort to return patients to baseline before admission. Early detection of complications following surgery, including sepsis, compartment syndrome, and site infections, falls under the purview of orthopedic nurses.
Tendon Repair
Tendon Repair Surgery:
Tendon repair is surgery done to treat a torn or otherwise damaged tendon. Tendons are the soft, band-like tissues that connect muscles to bone. When the muscles contract, the tendons pull the bones and cause them to move.
There are two types of tendon surgeries:
1. Tendon transfer: In this operation the insertion of a healthy function muscle is moved to a new site, so that it has a different action. Other intact tendons will take care of the original function of the transferred tendon.
2. Tendon grafting: In this, a length of free tendon is used to bridge a gap between the severed in the fibrous digital sheaths of the hand.
[Ref-John Ebnezar’s, “Textbook of Orthopedics”, edition, P-372]
Indications of tendon surgeries:
i. Muscle paralysis as in polio or peripheral nerve injury,
ii. Muscle imbalance as in cerebral palsy,
iii. In rupture or cut tendon where direct suture is not possible.
(Ref-John Ebnezar’s, “Textbook of Orthopedics”, 4 edition, P-372)
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