Finnish Society for Surgery of the Hand (FSSH)

The poor results of World War II hand surgical injuries were not only universal but also for the Finnish Surgery. This was also realized by KE Kallio, who was appointed in 1950 as Professor of Surgery at the University of Helsinki. He was determined to improve and modernize the treatment of hand injuries, and in this respect he, among other things. encouraged and supported his assistant physician Kauko Solo to get acquainted with the problems in the field. After the surgery in 1960, the actual surgical operation was started there in 1963 under the direction of Solonen, from the Surgical Hospital in Töölö Hospital. However, the action contracted after Solonen's move in 1967 to Kotka. In 1969, hand surgery again recovered in Helsinki after Solonen moved to the Invalid Foundation Hospital, under which, under his leadership, a hand-surgical department was opened in the same year. The hospital was the only hand-operated surgical training site in Finland until 1986. Training in hand surgery was started at the University Central Hospital in Tampere in 1987 by Simo Vilk. At the same time, Timo Raatikainen started hand surgery in Oulu and Kuopio.