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Dr. Kline gave him two splints (at no extra charge) to start wearing after a couple of weeks, stating that the curves left in his fingers were not from the cords pulling them in, but just the fact that the finger joints and knuckles were not used to being in a straight position, so he will have to train them to go back. Since starting the splints we have seen a huge improvement. My husband has only one regret and that is that he waited so long. The sooner the NA treatment the better the results. My husband now has use back to his hand and all the lumps in his palm are gone.

Compared to what he would have gone through with surgery, this was a piece of cake. Our insurance didn't cover the procedure because it was "out of network", actually, they would cover it, but our deductable is $2000.00 and the procedure costs us $1400.00, so it was cheaper to not go through insurance.

Dr. Kline has Dupuytren's himself and did go to France to have his NA performed. He then went back to train with the doctors who perform his procedure. He works as an emergency room physician, but does this work "on the side" just to help others who suffer with it. He has been a wonderful man to work with. He really does understand what we are going through. He even worked out a hotel room rate at the local Holiday Inn of $50.00 per night for his patients. We flew in Weds afternoon, had the procedure done Thursday morning and flew back home at 4:00 in the afternoon.

We truly feel that if radiation or NA doesn't work, you can always have the surgery, but after the surgery it is very difficult if not impossible to have the NA.

Hi Wolfgang,

Yes, it does look familiar. In fact, my husband had to wait to use the splints until after the skin had healed. We had no idea the area was even infected.

I'm sorry that I have "dropped out" of the forum. We have been so happy with the outcome of the NA that we have moved on to other areas that we had put on hold. I do plan on being here on a regular basis in order to share my husband's experience and answer any questions we can.

Thank you so much for all the dedication and work you all do to keep the forum alive and strong. I hope I can be of help. Sandie

Donald, have you ever tried searching this forum for Kenalog posts? It's easy to do but the feature is somewhat hidden in this forum. That's how it goes:

• Click on Search in the in the tool bar at the top of this page.
  
• Enter Kenalog in the text box
  
• Select "search in topics and answers" (comment: this label should rather read "search in titles and text")
  
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