Dr.Lucchina, is a medical doctor, specialist in Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology, Hand surgery and reconstructive microsurgery, and the founder of the Locarno Hand Center in the heart of Canton of Ticino, Switzerland. The Locarno Hand Center has as its background the beautiful Lake Maggiore, easily accessible from major European airports.

Our patients have access to the most advanced microsurgical techniques and the most sophisticated radiological techniques (digital x-rays and US with 18 Mhz probes). With the help of physiotherapists and qualified Hand therapists, we offer optimum conservative or post-operative therapies with a “highly professional”approach combined to an extraordinary attention to the privacy and the personal feelings of the person. The patient and their needs are at the center of a team where all the attention is focused on people and not just on their illness.
All clinical problems related to pathologies of the hands, wrist and elbow or needing a microsurgical reconstruction of all parts of the body can be solved in a single place: the Locarno Hand Center.
International patients from all over the world benefit from a International support. There are many ways to organize a trip to Locarno: the best hotel accomodations in the region with private transfers from major airports, as well as social events, beautiful trips for luxury shoppings in the capital of fashion are all well resons to come to Locarno in a beautiful, relaxing and quite place.

Here are the most common pathologies treated at the Locarno Hand Center by Stefano Lucchina, M.D.: carpal tunnel syndrome and entrapment syndromes, nerve and tendon reconstructions, basal thumb joint arthritis and hand arthritis, ligament lesions, hand and wrist fractures, finger and wrist ganglions, trigger finger, tendinitis (tennis and golfer’s elbow), Dupuytren’s contracture.

TOYP  1st  prize of TOYP (The Outstanding Young Person) – Busto A. (I) – March 2004

1st classified at the entry examination for the School of Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology  – Milan, November 2004

Best poster presentation (co-author) XV Congress FESSH – Bucarest (RO) – June 2010

Gong Show award  - 1st prize of the Swiss Society for Surgery of the Hand – Bienne (CH), November 2011

The weekly Tessin man  – La Cooperazione – April 2012