Julie E. Adams MD, Editor
In the year 2020, the year of this issue’s publication, we have faced unprecedented challenges to our society, to our patients, and to us as surgeons and health care workers providing musculoskeletal health. The pandemic of COVID-19 has altered all our lives, perhaps for a few months or perhaps permanently.
We have changed the way we provide care and the way we educate ourselves and others. We have canceled in-person meetings and have experienced disruption of the way in which we interact and provide surgical and nonsurgical care for patients, and even in ways we live our lives, with social distancing being the norm. Some of us have practiced “outside of the scope” of our training, rising to challenges of which previously we never dreamed. Nevertheless, the challenges of forearm injuries continue to present and will remain problems, even after COVID-19 is a memory. It is for that reason I am especially grateful to the authors of this Hand Clinics, and the Elsevier staff, who even in the midst of this situation, have created an issue focusing upon instability of the forearm. This reference serves as a guide to aid in evaluation and management of these often challenging conditions. Likewise, I am indebted to my family, including my husband, Scott Steinmann, and our children, Sarah and Hannah, for their patience and support.