The specialty deals with locomotor system diseases (bones, joints, muscles, and ligaments). It allows acting in the clinical or surgical treatment of chronic diseases and acute problems requiring urgent intervention, such as fractures and dislocations.

The specialty involves the treatment of diseases of the entire upper limb. It has a broad scope, including treating fractures, muscle, tendon, ligament, nerve lesions, tumors, and skin coverage defects. It also acts in the treatment of degenerative diseases and congenital deformities of the hands and wrists.

A specialty that uses repair or reconstruction techniques through magnifying devices, such as a microscope. It allows for surgeries such as reimplantation, tissue transfer from one body part to another (grafts and flaps), and reconstruction of peripheral nerves.