A PRC from OP to ...

The purpose of this rubric is to show and explain how a Proximal Row Carpectomy (PRC) or removal of the lower carpal row from surgery to healing and beyond works. Regardless of the surgical method, the first 4 weeks of plaster of paris or plaster splint are very similar. Physiotherapy and frustration factor are also similar.

May I introduce: Conny Hagauer from Austria. Like many others from all over the world, she found us on Facebook, where you can also find our secret self-help group. She obtained a lot of information from us in order to be able to better decide on her PRC. And finally decided on a PRC with an appointment on May 28, 2015. Together we went through some virtual pictures in advance, some reports, that is what makes self-help simple: You are not alone in front of the mountain of information and, above all, foreign words. It's not that doctors don't educate their patients. (Provided you know the lunate malacia with its numerous synonyms) It is much more the case that in the hectic moment of diagnosis and explanations, it is very often not possible to retain all of the information. Something quickly gets mixed up, or the information that patients obtain on the Internet gets mixed up with that on site. In these cases we are there and give the necessary information to the best of our knowledge and also assign a surgical method at one point or another. Which shouldn't mean that Conny threw everything upside down. To cut a long story short, her operation was on May 28th, 2015 and 2 days later she gave us a first inventory by cell phone recording, which she released for publication: