Operation that stops pain and keeps your wrist moving

Mobile: Builder Nick Busuttil, 43 Around 1.6 million people in the UK have osteoarthritis in the hand or wrist. It started to make my job difficult as I couldn’t move my wrist properly, and the joint became painful, with a sharp stabbing pain whenever I tried to use tools. The conventional treatment was a partial fusion where they’d remove the bone causing the problems and fuse the remaining small bones together so the ends don’t rub. Then my surgeon said he could fuse the bones using ‘staples’ — I’d keep a lot of movement and the weakened bone wouldn’t be affected. For the past few years I’ve been using ‘memory’ staples to perform a type of partial wrist fusion.