Kienbock Disease (KD) is basically, where the blood supply to the Lunate bone in the wrist shuts off and the Lunate bone dies. There are different stages that depends on how much damage has been caused from the lack of blood supply. The bone dies and the body absorbs the dead tissue. This causes the other bones in the wrist to move out of place and rub against each other wrong. This creates a lot of pain. Kienbock is considered "uncommon" instead of "rare". All that means is about one in every 150,000 - 200,000 or so get it. I used to post on that other board before getting this disease, and it took me awhile to find you here, as I couldn't use my hand for darn near two years. its useful now, I still have lots of trouble and very bad pain every day in my left hand. its a pain doing everything with one hand. I had a totally new procedure radical shortening.http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3767/is_200207/ai_n9141774 http://www.kienbock.com/
