Boston Red Sox catcher Connor Wong is recovering after surgery on his right hand, the team announced Thursday.

The human hand is an intricate system comprised of bones, muscles, tendons, ligaments, nerves, and blood vessels. When injury occurs—or congenital deformities, tumors, infections, or other medical conditions are diagnosed—hand surgery may be necessary.

Surgical procedures to repair the hand have historically been performed in the OR with patients receiving general anesthesia.However, the growth of field sterility has made many hand surgery procedures accessible to an in-office wide-awake local anesthesia no tourniquet (WALANT) surgical technique,

Alejandro Badia, MD, a hand and upper extremity surgeon at Badia Hand to Shoulder Center and Chief Medical Officer at OrthoNOW in Doral, Fla., discusses four recent trends in outpatient procedures and reimbursements for the hand and upper extremity ...

Boston Red Sox catcher Connor Wong went under the knife for right hand surgery on Thursday morning. Read more at MLB Trade Rumors.

Click here to read the Cover Story, “WALANT enables surgeons ‘to do more with less’.”The patient experience has always been at the heart of surgical practice.