Tendon Surgery

A Tendon is a thick band of fibrous connective tissue that connects muscle to bone and is capable of withstanding tension. They are all made of collagen.Tendons and muscles work together. Their main function is to mobilize/stabilize the joint .they help in weight transmission, locomotion etc. Infect no movements of any part of body is possible without good functioning muscle tendon unit.


There are varieties of disease affecting the tendon function like tendinitis of various tendons of the body.


Tendon Injury, tendon laceration can cause mechanical discontinuity resulting in loss of tendon function. Tendon injury requires tendon repair/ tendon grafting /tendon transfer depending upon the duration, location, mode of trauma to reconstruct the tendon function.
Hand surgeons are specially trained for carrying out this type of tendon surgery .not only you require good knowledge of anatomy with a good surgical skill but also you have to follow the good post operative rehabilitation programme and proper splintage if needed.
There are 12 tendons crossing the front (anterior) aspect of wrist joint & 12 tendons crossing the back (posterior) aspect of wrist joint.
Dr. Shailesh Gupta is one of the few hand surgeon in india ,MP,Indore who is specialized in dealing with all the problems related with hand surgery ,tendon surgery.

Few examples

A case of zone II flexor tendon injury

A case of distal forearm laceration secondary to sharp injury resulting into laceration of multiple tendon,nerve,artery laceration with a good functional recovery after 1 year of rapair.

A old/chronic case of small finger zone II flexor tendon laceration with inability to flex/bend the finger treated by palmeris longus tendon graft.

Extensor tendon injury

A case of crush injury of hand with loss of extensor tendon & dorsal skin of the hand -reconstructed with extensor tendon graft & radial forearm pain.

a good follow up with good rehabilitation regime resulted in normal functional hand.

A case of Mallet finger secondary to avulsion of central extensor tendon from the base of distal phalanx

A case of boutonniere deformity secondary to central slip avulsion +laceration by sharp trauma presented to us about 4 weeks after the injury.operated by repair of central slip with reposition of bony fragment,showing good results.