Welcome from Dr. Henley!

This website contains information intended for the education of my patients.

My goal is to make you as informed as you want to be, which will empower you to make health care decisions that are as perfectly in line with your personal priorities as possible.

I am a board-certified orthopaedic hand surgeon in Fayetteville, Arkansas. The foundation of my training is orthopaedic surgery, with fellowship specialized training in hand, wrist, elbow, and arm surgery. I am a partner with Ozark Orthopaedics in Fayetteville, along with several other orthopaedic surgeons.

How to Use this Website

The “Education Pages” links will take you to articles about the most common conditions and problems I see in my office.

The For Patients tab at the top of this page will provide you with more detailed information about surgery, non-surgical treatment, and other valuable topics.

Downloadable Forms for New Patients

New Patient Forms – Ozark Orthopaedics

This file contains three registration forms that all Ozark Orthopaedics patients fill out. Download, print them out, and fill them out at your convenience so you can save yourself the annoyance of filling them out in the office. To download any of the forms in this or the sections below, click on the link to start downloading the file or RIGHT click and choose “save file as”, “save target as”, or “save link as” to specify where you want to save the file before downloading.

Ozark Forms (860kb PDF)

Additional Information Form – New Patients

Please download this simple one page form to fill out prior to your first visit in the office. This is a special form that only my patients fill out. This form will also be available in the office if you’d rather fill it out there.

Dr. Henley Information Form (45kb PDF)

Mallet Finger Injury

“my finger doesn’t work”“my finger is bent”“my finger won’t straighten”“my finger is drooped” These are several of the most common things I hear when patients come in with a mallet finger. A mallet finger is the name for a ruptured (torn) tendon at the tip of the finger. A tendon rupture is where a tendon […]

Bad Thumb Arthritis – What Does It Look Like?

The video below shows a patient’s thumb moving back and forth. As you’ll see, most of the range of motion is at the MP (metacarpophalangeal) joint. This is abnormal – in a normal thumb, the majority of the motion is through the CMC (carpometacarpal joint, at the base of the thumb). When the CMC joint […]

Forearm Fractures In Kids – What Parents Need To Know

Bones in children are different from bones in adults. They break differently and they respond differently to injury. Some fractures occur both in adults and kids – some fractures occur only in children. Forearm fractures occur in both, with some important differences. This article will cover some of the basics of forearm fractures in kids. […]

Fingertip Ganglion Cysts – Mucous Cysts

The most common tumor in the finger is a ganglion cyst. A ganglion cyst is simply a fluid-filled sac. It can be visible from the outside or buried deep underneath the skin. Sometimes it causes symptoms like soreness and pain; other times patients have no idea it’s there. What is a mucous cyst? Ganglion cysts […]