Dr. Patel is a leading wrist surgeon in Orange County, treating complex wrist pain and injuries using evidence-based and minimally invasive techniques.
Conditions treated include TFCC tears, wrist arthritis, ganglion cysts, De Quervain’s tenosynovitis, and wrist fractures. He has a special expertise in distal radius fracture, partial and total wrist arthroplasty, and wrist arthroscopy.
Patients seeking a wrist specialist in South Orange County benefit from comprehensive diagnosis and personalized care plans focused on restoring strength, mobility, and function.
Conditions include:
- Accessory ossicles (e.g., os styloideum)
- Arthritis, inflammatory (rheumatoid, psoriatic)
- Arthritis, osteoarthritis (radiocarpal, intercarpal)
- Arthritis, post-traumatic
- Avascular necrosis of the lunate (Kienböck disease)
- Carpal bone fractures (lunate, triquetrum, capitate, hamate, etc.)
- Carpal instability (all patterns)
- Carpal tunnel syndrome
- Chronic wrist pain
- Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS)
- Congenital wrist deformities
- Distal radioulnar joint (DRUJ) arthritis
- Distal radioulnar joint (DRUJ) instability
- Distal radius fractures
- ECU subluxation
- Extensor tendonitis / tenosynovitis
- Foreign body injury
- Ganglion cysts (dorsal or volar)
- Gout / crystal arthropathy of the wrist
- Hardware irritation or failure
- Infection (septic wrist, osteomyelitis)
- Ligament injuries (scapholunate, lunotriquetral)
- Lunotriquetral instability
- Madelung deformity
- Malunion
- Nonunion
- Perilunate dislocation
- Radial tunnel syndrome
- Scaphoid fracture
- Scaphoid nonunion
- Scaphoid nonunion advanced collapse (SNAC wrist)
- Scapholunate advanced collapse (SLAC wrist)
- Scapholunate dissociation
- Synovitis
- Tendon rupture (flexor or extensor)
- Tendonitis / overuse syndromes
- TFCC tear or degeneration
- Tumors (benign or malignant)
- Ulnar impaction syndrome
- Ulnar nerve compression at the wrist (Guyon canal syndrome)
- Ulnar variance abnormalities
- Volar or dorsal wrist impingement
- Wrist dislocation
