The Upper Hand: Chuck & Chris Talk Hand Surgery

The Upper Hand Podcast feature Charles Goldfarb and Chris Dy from Washington University Department of Orthopedic Surgery. Our weekly podcast will discuss all things hand surgery, from the technical aspects of what we do (diagnosis, treatment) to our more personal approaches to events and opportunities that hand surgeons experience. We welcome feedback and audience engagement. We are grateful for the muscial contribution of @iamPeterMartin.

The Future of Hand Surgery

AI and Medicine: A Discussion with Alpesh Patel

Mailbag Cases and Reasons to be Thankful

Advocacy- why it matters

Bennett Fractures, Rolando Fractures, and Guest Lecturer Sam!

Considerations on the Darrach Procedure

The Business of Hand Surgery

Ulnar Shortening Osteotomy

Mailbag and Hand Society Preview

The SL Ligament with Sanj Kakar

Hand Injuries in Rock Climbing

Advice for Graduating Fellows and Spanning Plates

Flexor Tendon Avulsion

The Leadership Journey with Steve Frick

JBJS What's New in Hand Surgery, part 2

What's New in Hand Surgery 2024, part 1

Mission Trips and Cases

Medical Marketing 101 with special Guest

Ray Resections and Clinical Practice Management

Hand Therapy for Finger Fractures with Macy

Finger Fractures

What can hand specialists learn from a total joint surgeon?

Executive Presence- What does it mean and why is it important in 2024?

Volar Approach to the Scaphoid: Technical considerations

Listener Mailbag: CMC and UNT

Technical Considerations in the treatment of Kienbocks

Positive Energy, Cases, and End of Year Discussion

The Story of Sterling Bunnell

Medial Epicondyle Fractures- considerations in challenging outcomes

Patient Conversations: What to say and not say

Spaghetti Wrist- A technical episode

Chuck and Chris Discuss Clavicle Fractures with a Trauma Surgeon

The Hand Society, Elbow Deformity and Drake

Chuck and Chris host Podcast Journal Club

The post surgical care of the CMC arthritis patient: recurring guest Macy Stonner returns!

The pearls episode: median nerve repair and volar scaphoid fixation

Transposition pearls, hook of hamate fractures, and more!

Distal Radius Malunion with special guest Megan Conti Mica

Deep Dive on the PIP Joint and the Stiff Finger

Firework Injuries and Journal Club

Chuck and Chris discuss scaphoid nonunions

Chuck and Chris discuss the impact of patient age on treatment

Chuck and Chris Discuss the Importance of Medical Communities

Live from Singapore!

Chuck and Chris Discuss FPL Rupture after Distal Radius Volar Plating

Unsolved Problems in Hand Surgery: JHS European based discussion on Kienbocks and CMC Instability

Mallet Finger, made more exciting

Chuck and Chris Talk JBJS What's New in Hand Surgery Part 2

Chuck and Chris Talk JBJS What's New in Hand Surgery

Chuck and Chris on Vegas, hand fellowship, research, and AIN Palsy

The Lee Dellon Interview

Listener Mailbag and Cases

Webinars and Workaholics

How the Times are Changing

Promotion of Your Practice Interests

Chuck and Chris Discuss Claw Hand

Why mess with a good thing? Diagnosis and treatment of carpal tunnel syndrome

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Hand Surgery with Michael Galvez

Chuck, Chris, and Macy on the Radial Nerve. Part IV, The Role of the Hand Therapist

Chuck and Chris on the Radial Nerve. Part III Tendon Transfers

Chuck and Chris on the Radial Nerve. Part II Nerve Transfers

Chuck and Chris on the Radial Nerve. Part I

Chuck and Chris discuss marketing and competition in healthcare

Chuck and Chris Talk Mission Trips

Chuck and Chris share Current Strategies for Dupuytrens,

Interviews and Amputations

Chuck and Chris Talk Common Peroneal Nerve

ASSH 2022 Highlights, Lessons, and Favorite Moments

Live with Chuck and Chris from Boston at the ASSH

The Founding of the ASSH: A politician, a general, and a duck hunter

Chuck and Chris Welcome Pete Carter

Chuck and Chris continue the discussion on coaching and burnout

Chuck and Chris talk with Jen Barna, host of DocWorking podcast

Chuck and Chris discuss thumb arthritis and joint balance

Cubital Tunnel Syndrome with Ulnar Nerve Pathology: A Case Discussion

Chuck and Chris Talk Surgical Techniques for Cubital Tunnel Syndrome

Chuck and Chris Talk Elbow OCDs

Chuck and Chris Talk National Societies

Chuck and Chris Discuss Uncertainty

Chuck and Chris Welcome Farsh Guilak

Scaphoid Proximal Pole Nonunion

Chuck and Chris talk cases and listener emails

Chuck and Chris discuss ethical conundrums

Chuck and Chris Talk Hand Surgery Social Media Across the World

Live with Chuck and Chris from London at IFSSH

Chuck, Chris, and Macy Discuss the Thumb CMC Joint, Part 2

Chuck, Chris, and Macy Discuss the Thumb CMC Joint, Part 1

Chuck and Chris discuss the ASSH Annual Meeting with Glenn Gaston and Peter Rhee

Chuck and Chris Discuss the Challenging Clinic Patient

Chuck and Chris Discuss Generational Differences

Chuck and Chris Talk Nerve Injury During Carpal Tunnel Surgery

Chuck and Chris's Grab Bag

Deep Dives on Surgical Technique: ECU Tendon

Chuck and Chris Talk Hand Surgeries for the Non Hand Surgeon

Listener Mailbag w Discussion on Surgical Coding

Deep Dives on Surgical Technique: Radial Tunnel Decompression

Chuck and Chris discuss sustained high performance

Chuck and Chris Talk Wrist Salvage Procedures with Steve Moran

Pediatric Upper Extremity: Chuck and Chris join the Peds Ortho Podcast

JBJS Hand and Wrist Surgery Update, 2021, Part 2

JBJS Hand and Wrist Surgery Update 2021, Part I

Chuck and Chris Talk Baseball Injuries

Chuck and Chris Talk Congenital- What We Can All Learn

Deep Dives on Surgical Technique: Scaphoid Excision and 4-Bone Fusion

Chuck and Chris Talk Zoom Interviews

Resolutions and Cases

A Case Based Discussion of Kienbocks Disease

Chuck and Chris Discuss Their 3 Most Memorable Cases

Chuck and Chris Discuss Their 3 Most Influential Mentors

Deep Dives on Surgical Technique: TFCC Repair

Thanksgiving Episode 2021: Why Chuck and Chris are thankful

Half Full or Half Empty?

Fall 2021 Hand Surgery Journal Club

Free Solo Revised: Jeff and Steve Share Hand Surgery Practice Year 2 Insights

Leadership Series: Teams, Employee Satisfaction, and the State of Healthcare

Live Flexor Tendon Injury Discussion at 2021 ASHT Annual Meeting

Deep Dives on Surgical Technique: Thumb Ulnar Collateral Ligament Repair

Chris and Chuck Talk Innovation with guest Jorge Orbay

Chuck and Chris w the ASSH 2021 Recap

Deep Dives on Surgical Technique: Scapholunate Ligament Repair

Giving A Fantastic Presentation

ASSH Annual Meeting Preview: Amy and John share meeting insights and excitement

Chuck and Chris Welcome Rachel and Nora to Discuss the ASHT Annual Meeting

Wheel of Hand Surgery: Never Have I Ever

My Toughest Case: Scleroderma

Interview 14: Chuck and Chris Welcome Terry Light for a Medicolegal Education

Chuck and Chris Talk Operating Room Efficiency

Chuck and Chris Talk SLAC Wrist

How to Get the Most Out of Your Next Vacation

My Hardest (recent) Case: Revision Ulnar Nerve

Free Solo: Jeff and Steve Share Practice Year 1 Insights

Part 2: Stiff Finger with Macy Stonner

Part 1: The Stiff Finger

The PIP Joint Fracture

7 Personal Finance Pearls

Chuck and Chris Talk Radial Tunnel Syndrome: Myth or Reality

Interview 13: Chuck and Chris Welcome Mark Halstead, Peds Sports Medicine Physician

Lumps & Bumps: more fun than you thought!

Chuck and Chris talk a new reality for 2021: The Hybrid Meeting with pearls for success

Deep Dives on Surgical Technique: Cubital Tunnel Decompression

Interview 12: Chuck, Chris, & Rob Kamal discuss the new CPG on distal radius fractures

Deep Dives on Surgical Technique: Carpal Tunnel Release and Wrist Arthroscopy

Mentors and Scaphoids

Pediatric Fractures Part 2

Pediatric Phalanx Fractures

Chuck and Chris talk about The Mental Game in Hand Surgery

Part 3: Chuck and Chris Talk about What's New in the Hand Surgery Literature

Part 2: Chuck and Chris Talk about What's New in the Hand Surgery Literature

Chuck and Chris Talk about What's New in the Hand Surgery Literature

Interview 11, Part 3 on Marketing: Chuck and Chris welcome Rob Gray and Orrin Franko

Chuck and Chris Talk CMC Fracture/ Dislocations

Interview 10 and Part 2 of Practice Development: Marketing w Aaron Perlut

Chuck and Chris Talk Pronator Syndrome

Chuck and Chris Talk Practice Development

Chuck and Chris Discuss Virtual Interviews

Interview 9 for Part 3 of Nerve Surgery: Chuck and Chris Welcome Amy Moore

Part 2: Chuck and Chris Talk Nerve Surgery, Technical Pearls 2

Part 1: Chuck and Chris Talk Nerve Surgery, technical pearls

Distal Radius Part 4/ Interview 9: Chuck and Chris talk therapy with Macy Stonner

Interview 8: An Epidemic during the Pandemic: Chuck and Chris Welcome Asif Ilyas to Discuss the Opioid Epidemic

Academic Institutions Don't Love You Back- Simone's Maxims

Part 3: Distal Radius Fracture, when a volar locking plate may not be ideal

Part 2: Distal Radius Fractures, the Volar Approach

Part 1: Distal Radius Fractures, Indications for Surgery

Leadership during the COVID Epidemic: One crucial consideration

Chuck and Chris discuss CRPS

Interview 7: Chuck and Chris Talk NBA Bubble w guest Ben Nwachukwu

ASSH 2020, Virtual Edition, Meeting Recap

Interview 6: Chuck and Chris Talk Hand Camp and Social Media with Amy Lake

Emergency Podcast: ASSH Annual Meeting

Interview 5: The Surgeon Therapist Relationship

Interview 4: Chuck and Chris Talk Kienbocks Disease with guest Steven Moran

Why Medicine? Chuck and Chris Talk Medical Careers

Can this one trick make you more efficient?

Part 3: Dupuytrens Disease w special guest Charlie Eaton

Part 2: Dupuytrens Disease

Part 1: Dupuytrens Disease

Part 2: Radial Sided Wrist Pain

Part 1: Radial Sided Wrist Pain

Microstresses in the Medical World

Part 2: Tennis elbow- Treatment

Part 1: Tennis elbow, a discussion of the diagnosis and examination

7 Side Gigs

Chuck & Chris Talk Education of Trainees

WALANT Hand Surgery Part 2 with guest Sam Moghtaderi

WALANT Hand Surgery Part 1 with guest Sam Moghtaderi

Ulnar Sided Wrist Pain, Episode 2: TFCC Treatment

Ulnar Sided Wrist Pain, Episode 1: Diagnosis

Flexor Tendon Surgery and Rehabilitation

Thumb UCL Injuries. Evaluation and Treatment in 2020

Interview 3: Marybeth Ezaki. Past ASSH President, Current Mentor and Sage

Dogma in Hand Surgery

Patient Centered Care and Basal Joint Arthritis

Interview 2: Martin Boyer, President of the Hand Society

Part 2: Hand Surgery Literature Update, 2019

Part 1: Hand Surgery Literature Update, 2019

Emergency Podcast: COVID-19

7 Clinical Pearls

Interview 1: Brent Graham, Journal of Hand Surgery Editor

7 Wack Gigs

Scaphoid 2- Surgical Treatment, the Volar Approach, Nonunions, and Therapy

Scaphoid 1- Diagnosis and the Dorsal Approach

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome 2- Surgery and Outcomes

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome 1- Diagnosis and Initial Treatment

Hands in the News: Metacarpal Fractures

Chuck & Chris: background and motivation

Interviewing for Residency and Fellowship – Perspectives from 2 faculty members

Cubital Tunnel 2 – Surgery and Postoperative Protocols

Cubital Tunnel 1 – Diagnosis and Initial Treatment