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In 2013, I celebrated my 36th birthday with my twin brother Tim, with a family lunch, a trip to the Lego store, followed by an appointment that night for a short stay at Royal Liverpool Hospital.

This is painful condition that involves irritation of the two tendons that run through a tunnel on the thumb side of the wrist.

Volar plate injuries can impact on the overall stability of the knuckle joint. The volar plate and collateral ligaments are injured when a force is applied to the finger that bends it backwards (hyper-extension) or to the side.

You have recently had an appointment with your consultant to discuss your upcoming surgery. This page aims to put into writing the information given to you at that appointment and to answer some of the commonly asked questions. If you have any other questions or concerns, please contact the Uro-oncology Nurse Specialist Team/keyworkers or speak to the doctors or nurses at the hospital when you see them. The contact details are at the end of this booklet.

This procedure is designed to straighten the finger, and is something that people usually opt to do because of restriction in the function of the hand as a result of Dupuytren’s disease.

You have been told you have a meibomian cyst (or chalazion) on your eyelid and referred to a special ‘cyst’ clinic for review and possible treatment. You may find it useful to read the information on this page as it will give you a better idea of what to expect when you attend your appointment.

This page is designed to allow you to gauge how you are doing after having a wrist fracture.

The triquetrum is one of the eight bones of the wrist joint, situated on the pinkie side of the wrist

This page gives you advice on using a sling and how it will help your recovery.

This page explains why your child has an appointment for the Neurodevelopmental Clinic at either Gloucestershire Royal Hospital or Cheltenham General Hospital and why it is important for your child to attend their appointment.

This page gives you information about bladder urgency and how to improve bladder function with retraining and other treatment methods. Bladder urgency is having the sudden urge to hurry to pass urine, often with the fear of not getting to the toilet in time. People with bladder urgency can find that they frequently have to pass urine in the daytime and sometimes at night. Bladder control can be lost and an embarrassing leak of urine might happen. Studies have shown that bladder urgency is a common problem but, with the right assessment, treatment can work very well.

This page explains about finasteride and its use, including side effects. You have been prescribed finasteride because you have been diagnosed with one of the following conditions: female pattern hair loss, lichen planopilaris, frontal fibrosing alopecia or hirsutism.

This page gives you information about miscarriage. Miscarriage can be a distressing experience, not only because you feel the deep emotional sadness of losing a baby, but also the changes that your body will go through may affect the way that you are feeling. We would like to offer our condolences to you and will try to help by answering any questions you have.

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Cancer Support Workers are part of your hospital team. We help people with cancer feel safe, listened to, and supported.

The triscaphoid joint is located within the wrist joint, and involves the scaphoid, trapezium and trapezoid bones.

A trapeziectomy is an operation that can help relieve pain from arthritis at the base of the thumb

This page gives you information about Wide Local Excision (WLE) of a vulval lesion. This is a treatment for pre-cancerous, recurrent and early cancer of the vulva.

After-dribble means the loss of a few drops of urine. This is usually after leaving the toilet. The medical term for this condition is post micturition dribbling (PMD). This page gives you information about PMD and how to manage the condition. Few men admit to having this problem but a great many suffer and are embarrassed by it. PMD affects men of all ages. It usually happens just as the penis is being replaced and garments rearranged - then the trousers get wet and stained.

This page gives you information about the procedure known as an anterior resection. It explains what the procedure involves and also some of the common complications related with it.