Hand Surgery in Delhi

The hand is the most functionally demanding part of the body, and it is unforgiving of both injury and inattention. At Sama Hospital — a NABH-accredited, doctor-owned hospital in South Delhi — hand conditions are treated by our orthopaedic team, and most procedures are day-care, often under local or regional anaesthesia.

If you have cut your hand and cannot bend a finger, or a finger is numb, come in today. A divided tendon or nerve does far better when it is repaired early.

The tendon that bends your finger catches as it passes through a tight sheath, so the finger clicks, snaps, or locks — typically worst first thing in the morning. Many settle with a steroid injection. Where they do not, a small day-care operation releases the sheath and cures it. It is commoner in people with diabetes.

Most wrist lumps are ganglions, and they are not cancer. They are harmless fluid-filled swellings from a joint or tendon sheath. Many need nothing done at all; some vanish by themselves. We remove them when they are painful, when they get in the way, or when the diagnosis is not certain.

A lump that is hard, growing, or painful at rest is a different matter and should be examined.

A cut that leaves you unable to bend or straighten a finger, or that leaves a finger numb, has divided a tendon or a nerve. These need repair, and early repair gives a much better result. Do not wait for the wound to heal and then come.

A thickened cord in the palm slowly pulls the fingers down into the hand. It is painless, and it does not go away. Surgery is considered when you can no longer lay your hand flat on a table — the point at which waiting longer starts to cost you, because the finger joints themselves stiffen.

Many are treated in a cast. Fractures that are displaced, rotated, or involve a joint surface need fixing — a rotated finger fracture that unites crooked will cross over its neighbour when you make a fist, and that is very difficult to correct later.

This is the part patients skip, and it is the part that decides the result.

The hand stiffens extraordinarily quickly. A technically perfect tendon repair in a stiff hand is a failure. Hand therapy — splinting, controlled movement, and graded strengthening — is what converts a good operation into a working hand.

Budget for the therapy when you budget for the operation.

Simple day-care procedures — trigger finger release, ganglion excision — are back to light use within a fortnight. Tendon repairs and Dupuytren’s surgery require splinting and therapy over three months or more.

What moves the figure: the procedure and its complexity; whether one digit or several; anaesthesia; and how much hand therapy is included.

We quote an all-inclusive package, confirmed after clinical assessment, with cashless treatment available for eligible insurance patients. See our cost estimate page.

Doctor-owned, NABH-accredited, in South Delhi since 1982, with nine orthopaedic consultants named on this page.

And many hand conditions — most ganglions, plenty of trigger fingers — need no operation at all. We will tell you when that is the case.

A trigger finger. The tendon catches in a tight sheath. Many settle with a steroid injection; where they do not, a small day-care release cures it.

Most are ganglions — harmless, and not cancer. Many need nothing. Remove them if painful, obstructive, or if the diagnosis is uncertain. A hard, growing or rest-painful lump should be examined.

That is urgent. A tendon or nerve has been divided, and early repair gives a much better result. Come in the same day.

Likely Dupuytren’s contracture — a thickened cord in the palm. Surgery is considered once the hand cannot be laid flat on a table.

Yes. The hand stiffens fast, and a perfect repair in a stiff hand is a failure. Therapy is what turns the operation into a working hand.