Dr. John Knight of the Hand and Wrist Institute now offers ganglion cyst removal. Dr. Knight is a top notch carpal tunnel doctor and considered the best orthopedic hand surgeon in Orange County.


Dr. John Knight of the Hand and Wrist Institute now offers ganglion cyst removal. Dr. Knight is a top carpal tunnel syndrome doctor and considered the best orthopedic hand surgeon in Orange County. Now he offers his skills in the treatment of ganglion cysts.

Ganglion cysts are unfortunately common maladies of the wrists and the fingers. They're little fluid-filled sacs attached to stalks. They can be soft or hard and can come on gradually or show up overnight on a patient’s hand. No one quite knows what causes them, but they might be the result of irritation of the wrist tendons. Cysts that appear at the last joint of a finger are usually accompanied by bone spurs caused by arthritis.

Cysts may or may not cause pain and sometimes they disappear on their own. However, ganglion cysts that grow beneath the surface of the skin are more likely to cause pain. When they start to hurt or interfere with a patient’s day to day activities a few techniques can be used to treat them. The doctor can apply splints or anti-inflammatory pain medications or the cyst can be aspirated. This means that a needle is inserted into the cyst and the fluid drawn out. Surgery does exist as a last resort and fortunately Dr. Knight, who is also a rheumatoid arthritis specialist in Orange County, is adept at all manner of hand and wrist surgery. Surgery excises the cyst and its stalk and may take a bit of the sheath around the tendon and other tissue. The surgery can be traditional open surgery or can be arthroscopic. This means a miniature camera is inserted into very small incision to cut down on the operation’s invasiveness. It also helps the surgeon see the area they’re operating on in more detail.

The area where the cyst was removed will experience some tenderness for about a month and half, but the doctor can prescribe pain medications or a splint to ease the discomfort. The patient usually won’t need any sort of physiotherapy.

Along with treatment to remove ganglion cysts, Dr. Knight is also an expert in treating basal thumb arthritis in Orange County. He’s also a thoracic outlet syndrome specialist in Orange County and has performed procedures to repair and heal sprains and strains, bursitis, cartilage tears, trigger finger and tendinitis. He’s a board certified orthopedic surgeon and has performed over 15,000 procedures to the hands, wrists and upper extremities over 20 years of practice. Dr. Knight was one of the first surgeons to utilize the Free Hand System, which restored the function to the hand of a quadriplegic, a person who’d lost the use of all of their limbs.

A would-be patient who’s troubled by a ganglion cyst or other conditions in their hands or wrists, should contact Dr. Knight at http://www.handsurgeonorangecounty.com.

Company Contact Information
Hand Surgeon Orange County
John Knight
3501 Jamboree #540
Newport Beach, CA
92660
(949) 288-6622

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