Dressing For The Elbow After Having The Cubital Surgery

If you only had the medial epicondyle removed you ll have a soft bandage wrapped over your elbow after surgery.

Dressing for the elbow after having the cubital surgery.

Sutures will dissolve on their own and typically a dressing is needed for 10 14 days after surgery. Right now i m at the point where the symptoms are pretty similar to pre surgery except that now i have some elbow pain. You ll need to keep the dressing clean and dry cover it while showering. Wearing an elbow splint at night will prevent you from bending your elbow.

The surgeon then divides the overlying ligament known as osborne s ligament increasing the size of the tunnel and reducing pressure on the ulnar nerve. Bandage splint surgical dressing care o please keep your hand elevated as much and as often as possible for 2 4 days after surgery. Persistent worsening symptoms after carpal and cubital tunnel surgery. After cubital tunnel decompression surgery.

During open cubital tunnel release surgery the surgeon makes a 3 to 4 inch incision on the inside edge of the elbow allowing the cubital tunnel below to be viewed and accessed. Your physical therapy program can progress quickly after this type of surgery. As you still have significant symptoms after the surgery that was supposed. This is very important.

Other when they weren t all except the thumb. The symptoms may reoccur immediately after surgery or a brief period of symptomatic relief may exist before symptoms return either with the same or increased intensity. After the dressing has been removed you may shower with the wound uncovered but you should not soak or immerse the area of incision for 3 5 days. 4 july 2017 12 47am.

Cubital tunnel syndrome is treated by avoiding elbow flexion during activities and while sleeping says dr. Cubital tunnel syndrome also called ulnar nerve entrapment is a condition caused by compression of the ulnar nerve in an area of the elbow called the cubital tunnel. The ulnar nerve travels down the back of the elbow behind the bony bump called the medial epicondyle and through a passageway called the cubital tunnel.