Tendon Injuries of the Hand: Current Treatment Strategies and Future Options

Tendons form the crucial connections linking muscles to bones, allowing movement of the axial and appendicularskeleton. Hand injuries often involve tendinous injury which may severely impair daily function. Current clinical treatmentstrategies for tendon injuriesare suboptimal, requiringimmobilization and prolonged rehabilitation, but regenerativemedicine presents promising future treatment strategies that may expedite return of function, improving long-termpatient outcomes. In this review, we discuss current treatment paradigms for upper extremity tendon injuries, as wellas the potential impact that emerging regenerative medicine and stem cell related strategies may bring to improvingclinical treatment.