I went to visit my parents over Thanksgiving Holiday and for the first time saw my dad's hands. He's 81 and knew he had something wrong with his hands, and confirmed by a doctor, but didn't know a name until I figured it out concerning my own hands. His condition has been apparently unchanged in years and he will never have any procedure done. He has about 10-15 degree contracture in one hand and none in the other. They don't bother him at all. He has worse problems to deal with like bad COPD. Here are the pics:

I talked to my dad today and he claims his Dupuytrens has disappeared and has no problem making a flat hand now. See the attachment on my original post. Even though he had minimal contraction, it seemed his disease was quite extensive. I'm a bit in disbelief that it's actually gone and I've asked for a picture for proof. Has anyone heard of the disease spontaneously disappearing? I know nodes do, but I didn't think the cords would. I don't know if this may be a factor, but since he has severe COPD, he mostly just sits in a chair all day watching TV and has put nearly zero stress on his hands.

Occasionally but rarely, Dupuytren's improves. But I never heard that it vanished more or less over night. I understood your first post that your father had had a contracture over many years. If that improves it would improve only slowly or it was probably something else other than Dupuytren's.

Wolfgang

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This article says about 10% of cases the disease improves or disappears altogether: http://growyouthful.com/ailment/dupuytrens-disease.php