Acta Chir Orthop Traumatol Cech. 2025; 92(4):210-217 | DOI: 10.55095/achot2025/011

Surgical Treatment of Wrist and Hand Deformity in Children with Cerebral PalsyCurrent concepts review

RAVI PATEL1, 2, 3, MUHAMMAD MURTAZA KHAN1, 3, GURUKIRAN GURUKIRAN3, MARIA BELEN CARSI1, ROHIT AMOL SINGH1
1 Department of Trauma and Orthopaedics, Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital, Oswestry, United Kingdom
2 Department of Trauma and Orthopaedics, The Princess Royal Hospital, Apley Castle, Telford, United Kingdom
3 Department of Trauma and Orthopaedics, Royal Shrewsbury Hospital, Mytton Oak Rd, Shrewsbury, United Kingdom

Cerebral palsy (CP) is a complex disorder resulting from injury to developing brain. It involves multimodal and multidisciplinary approach that involves various disciplines of medical science. The entire focus of this approach is to provide patients with this disorder the best quality of life. Although CP can affect both upper and lower limbs, the functional expectation of upper limb is much higher and complex. This implies particularly to hand and wrist based on complex functional movements expected of them. This puts orthopaedic surgeons in a unique position in managing these patients. It is worth mentioning here that it is not about offering them a surgical intervention the emphasis should lie on the entire process of selection, evaluation, and intervention. All these steps need to be considered very thoroughly so that the best outcome is achieved based on patients' expectation at present and keeping the future consideration in mind as well. This paper focuses only on children with hand and wrist deformity. Although children have a great healing potential, but they have high functional demand and longer-life expectancy in general so getting things right for the first time should be of paramount importance. This paper tries to address this issue by reviewing the literature to help orthopaedic surgeons in developing an algorithm in their mind when offering intervention. The consideration of inclusion and exclusion criteria along with review of literature has been considered with this background in mind. This paper primarily addresses the surgical aspect of disease and steps that are critical in this regard. Follow up planning, long-term outcome, rehabilitation planning, use of conservative treatment has not been considered in this review.

Keywords: wrist and hand deformity, surgical teatment, children, cerebral palsy.

Received: May 6, 2024; Revised: May 6, 2024; Accepted: March 24, 2025; Published: August 1, 2025  Show citation

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PATEL R, KHAN MM, GURUKIRAN G, CARSI MB, SINGH RA. Surgical Treatment of Wrist and Hand Deformity in Children with Cerebral Palsy. Acta Chir Orthop Traumatol Cech. 2025;92(4):210-217. doi: 10.55095/achot2025/011. PubMed PMID: 40878452.
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