Hi, I also live in Winnipeg and following two years of frozen shoulder (first one followed by the other) I recently researched the lump in my palm which led me to this disease. I have also noticed some tenderness on one of my feet. This is all new to me so I am researching information from others.

Wow, I've had surgery on both frozen shoulders(bone spurs were said causes)! My left shoulder was done most recently (about 4 or 5 months ago) & now I have a 'rope' going iup my left palm (& severe night pain in hand/wrist). Interesting and so disconcerting.... oh my....
Thanks for letting me know & posting this topic
-Tammy

Debbie,

UVA is the nearest that I know of. The forum has received good reports from Dr. Weiss's patients. Check the sidebar to see if any other places are closer to you. You might want to consider RT since you appear to be in the earlier stages of DD when RT seems to be most effective. I had RT 2 years ago and have been in remission since then.

Lori

Very interesting info here. Thanks to everyone for sharing!

I am 50 and have had nodules and chords develop slowly for 5 years. I notice that Dup. progresses quickly after hand stimulation as from bike riding, tool use, weight lifting. I switched to stretch chords, which pinched my pinkie area, and made it much worse. Big nodules formed from the physical trauma. Dup. is reactive to physical trauma in my case. My initial nodules were not the problem. Chords developed from where I gripped the most after. Now I try to use my fingers more and wear gloves while working out and doing housework.

I also had frozen shoulder on both shoulders within the past year. I got the book "How treat your own rotator cuff" and did those stretches and exercises with a large elastic band. My right shoulder is much better now, with less pain, and less of those immobilizing zingers that occur from reaching for things at odd angles. Anyone relate to that? Taking the last sock out of the dryer used to hurt!! Now my left shoulder is getting better with the elastic band work. It promotes healing blood to the area too, I believe.

Keep fighting the good fight. Make it a part time job, since we are used to doing well at our jobs. That's what helped the 9/11 survivor Lauren Manning overcome 24 surgeries for her burns. She was the executive at Cantor Fitzgerald waiting for an elevator in the lobby when the first plane hit. She was covered with a fire blast from the elevator and walked outside where a man extinguished her with his coat while others ran away from her. She had to wait 50 minutes with 3rd degree burns like that before the paramedics even treated her. They thought she was too far gone. Now she leads a productive life again. She had worked 12-14 hour days at her securities job and just turned that some intensity to her recovery and did very well. She didn't treat her condition as a distraction.

I have both Dupuytrens and ledderhose disease, now i also have frozen shoulder on affected side, I can find no one that takes care of the shoulder except Orthopedic Surgeons who knows nothing about these diseases. I have gone through very painful physical therapy and cannot continue because the pain is so bad I haven't been able to sleep in weeks, I am at a point I no longer know what to do, I am very active and want to continue to work out but am loosing the engery to do this through lack of sleep. I am in the uS and my options are extremely limited in my area, the one person that does know about the diseases is a plastic sugeon and does nothing for a shoulder.