My pinky is contracted at least 45 degrees but I can straighten it without any pain. When released it goes back to the contracted position but I was wondering if this was typical. For some reason, I'm thinking most cannot straighten a contracted finger. I know the common thinking is to have NA, etc on that finger with that much contracture but so far I have no loss of hand function. I don't want to have treatment and risk stirring things up a bit just to get that finger straightened. And, yes I've read that is you delay treatment, especially on the pinky, the finger may never go all the way straight. I'm fine with all that. Another reason I'm waiting is I have aggressive disease that will surely be recurrent so not wanting to get things rolling with that.

There are two cords in that pinky, also a big PIP nodule, one big central cord that was pre RT and the other is a spiral cord on the side, the spiral cord is what I believe is causing the pinky contracture, to answer your question when I straighten the finger without using the other hand, I can get it sort of straight but not all the way, I can get it all the way straight using the other hand. The contracture is clearly DD and nothing else.

That finger is also interesting because I have a big cord from a nodule just below the MCP running was down into the palm but there is no MCP contracture, only PIP contracture, I chalk that up to the RT which pretty much killed that MCP nodule, but the palm cord has continued to grow and I can feel it heading towards the thumb, I have palm cords pretty much on all ten digits but no palm contracture in either hand so far, I have tightening and loss of extension so contracture may be coming later.