I would recommend getting DMSO and using it on your hand. It is very effective at dealing with scar tissue and preventing new scar tissue from forming. DMSO has been used effectively for treating arthritis where the scaring from the inflammation results in the lost of flexibility in the joints and pain. Dr. Jacobs has a website that sells in a lotion form with urea and it is not cheap but works well.

You can get less pure DMSO from a feed store as it is used as a lineament for horses. Only result of the impurities is the tendency to have breath like you have just eaten a whole clove of garlic.

Important to have clean hands before using DMSO as it is great at carrying anything past the cell membrane. This is also one of its benefits as it helps cells remove waste products.

I am also very interested in DMSO. Read about it online, but I'm always leary of online ads.
I worked as a hand therapist for 15 years. There were people who used it for arthritis and swore by it. I never heard of any negative effects. Then again, some patients used WD40, and swore by that. I probably won't try that, unless I become desperate.
In 15 years of treating hand injuries, I sure never expected to end-up with D.D. But, here I am L.D. and D.D.
I never saw D.D. patients until after surgery, and now I wish I had spent more time asking what they tried for conservative treatment for the pain..especially in the feet.

Rex, great results! I think your post is spot on except the recurrence part. Everything I've seen, including Eaton's own website, says there are higher recurrence rates with NA. Even so, as you say NA should be preferred as a first choice in most instances.

It makes me wonder, too, if you have aggressive Dups, recurrence may be as likely or more likely with surgery. It is definitely more trauma to the hand than NA.

One of those things we really can't know for sure.

I am a 58 year old male, had a Dupuytren cord that started in the center of my palm that extended halfway up my ring finger on my left hand. My ring finger was pulled inward about 20 degrees in the last six months (Had the nodules for years). Anyway I had surgery 15 Feb of this year, my hand felt ok considering what I just went through. My scar did feel at times a couple weeks afterwards like it was badly burned. Bad weather seemed to increase the pain, swelling and stiffness. I do my own therapy three times a day using a hand massager I purchased on this web-site
http://www.ncmedical.com/item_57.html
and using store bought udder cream as a lubricant (stays slick longer than cream or lotion).
The first two weeks after surgery I only excised and stretched my fingers a few times a day; used a splint during sleep or resting. I have gone to physical therapy two times per week starting the third week.
From the third week on when get up my fingers are very stiff, so start with stretching than I start at the top of the wound on my ring finger and work the scar to the back and forth with the hand massager using the utter cream for five to ten minutes. Then I rub the scar with my thumb downward to the wrist lightly squeezing both sides of my hand and all fingers for a few minutes to work the fluids out (using the cream on both side of the hand).
I than exercise and stretch the hand/fingers finishing with icing, both sides at the same time. I do this three times each day. On the fifth week my therapist recommended I use a silicone gel patch
http://www.ncmedical.com/item_1151.html
when sleeping with the splint, this helps soften the scar.
Last Wednesday I have my final check-up with the surgeon, (six weeks after surgery) my hand had considerabl swelling, ached and burned. He could not believe how much my hand had swelled. Like I stated, my hand more discomfort during weather systems passing through. He asked me if I had rheumatoid arthritis, I said no but my mother does, he seemed to think this could be associated with my problem. He prescribed “Dicioefnac”, an anti-inflammatory and a compression glove. Today I seen my therapist, she started me with hot paraffin dips, than our normal routine. My swelling is 50% less and there is no burning near or at the scar; my motion has also improved three days later.
INW