Dave T, Your approach and tactics for your appeal to your insurance company was helpful for all of us to know no matter why we may have to pursue an insurance company for denied coverage. I hope I never need it but I'm filing your course of action for reference, just in case.
Well done!

You can find xiaflex providers by going to the Auxilium website. There is a search function to find trained clinicians.

Having said that, you might want to narrow your search to docs who participated in the clinical trials of xiaflex, as they will have much greater experience with the procedure and results. You can find the names of docs who participated in the trials by doing a google seaqrch for "auxilium clinical trials" and then reading the reports. Once you find the name of a doc, call the doc's office and ask if the doc is currently administering xiaflex. See if you can discuss the proceiudre/results with a nurse or physician assistant. Then you can make the appointment.

Good luck! It's been a good procedure for me (I have another injection in three weeks).

Hi Dave t,

Where did you have your treatment carried out, are in the UK, I'm not having much joy finding anywhere in the UK that will do the Xaiflex treatment.

Dave O

below web site iss for US residents only. Xiaflex has not yet been approved in Europe, only in the USA.

Wolfgang

@dave t:

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I was treated in the US, near Boston.

Go to the Xiaflex website (www.xiaflex.com) and enter a postal code (try 02150) and then you get a list of physicians administering xiaflex. Contact doctors' offices and choose one for treatment.

Not sure, but xiaflex may not yet be available in the UK. Perhaps someone else on the forum knows more.

I would expect that motion and the use of DMSO would be helpful in assisting with the removal of dead cellular matter that has been dissolved by the collagenase enzyme. After intense exercise it has been proven that massage therapy helps the muscles remove waste products and recover much faster. This should apply to a procedure where connective fascia tissue is being dissolved.

I take exception with the statement about the pain involved with a NA procedure. I had the procedure performed in both my hands by Dr. Denkler in Larkspur, CA and he used a local anesthetic and other than the injections of the anesthetics I felt nothing during the actual NA procedure or afterwords. But for the bandages on my hands I could have driven myself back home.