Hand & Wrist Doctor in New Orleans
Katie Faust, MD, is a board-certified orthopaedic surgeon who has completed two fellowships—a Hand, Upper Extremity, and Microvascular Surgery Fellowship at Duke University and a Pediatric Hand Fellowship at The Hand & Upper Extremity Center of Georgia in Atlanta. She and her team at OANO, including occupational therapists and support staff, use state-of-the-art procedures to diagnose, manage and correct conditions which can run from the fingertips to the wrist.
Treatment of the hand and wrist is a highly specialized field which includes with a broad range of conditions and symptoms. Many of these are treated with non-surgical approaches, such as medications, injections, and therapy. When surgery is required, advanced and minimally invasive procedures are performed on an outpatient basis and without a hospital stay.
Specifically, we treat a wide range of orthopedic conditions that include:
- Arthritis (hand/thumb/wrist)
- Boutonniere deformity
- Broken bones
- Buckle fractures
- Carpal tunnel syndrome
- Complex regional pain syndrome
- Cubital tunnel syndrome
- De Quervain syndrome
- Dislocations
- Distal radius fractures
- Dupuytren’s contracture
- Fingertip injuries
- Flexor tendon injuries
- Ganglion cysts
- Hand fractures
- Kienbock’s disease
- Osteoarthritis of hand or wrist
- Mallet finger
- Nerve injuries
- Thumb UCL sprain
- Trigger finger
- Ulnar tunnel syndrome
- Wrist sprain
- Arthroscopic surgery
- Bracing/casting
- Carpal & cubital tunnel release
- De Quervain’s release
- Finger & wrist joint replacement
- Fracture reduction and fixation
- Fusions
- Ganglion cyst excision
- Injections
- Medication therapy
- PRP (platelet-rich plasma)
- Physical therapy
- Repair of traumatic injuries (cut tendons/nerves)
- TFCC (triangular fibrocartilage complex) repair
- Tendon repair
- Thumb CMC (carpometacarpal) replacement
- Topical ointment/therapy
- Trigger finger release
- Wrist arthroscopy
