The field of hand surgery deals with both surgical and non-surgical treatment of conditions and problems that may take place in the hand or upper extremity (commonly from the tip of the hand to the shoulder) including injury and infection. Hand surgery may be practiced by graduates of general surgery, orthopedic surgery and plastic surgery.
More formally, chiroplasty, or cheiroplasty, is a term which refers to plastic surgery of the hands. The term combines root word "chir(o)", which means "hand", and the suffix "-plasty", which means "surgical repair".
