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03/05/2007 21:14
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03/05/2007 21:14
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Re: Surgery Tomorrow 2-28
As an aside - man, what a nasty incision...Looks like I tried to take a Flounder away from a Great White.
In these days of less, it really is amazing that they still treat delicate hands like that. It's hardly surprising that we all look for a better solution. Hopefully medical science will deliver better treatment methods in the not too distant future.
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03/19/2007 22:52
JackStrawnot registered
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03/19/2007 22:52
JackStrawnot registered
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Re: Surgery Tomorrow 2-28 Update
Well, I'm now three weeks post-op and I'm going through the "What the farg did I do?!?" stage of recovery.
Finger is straight, but it don't wanna bend. Doing the full-on PT with cremes, ice, heat, splints, scar-minimizer plastic thingy - the whole enchilada. The palmer area and the area in-between the mp and pip remains hard and tumescent.
CHS says that, well, I scar a lot (slight keloid history) and I'm gonna have to work harder at PT than others. So I'd add that for anyone who does have OS, scar tissue management therapy is really important in addition to bracing, of course.
Got the additional bit of delightful news that I have a touch of Frozen Shoulder (correlation to Dup's?) so in the immortal words of Caddyshack's Karl Spackler "...so I got that going for me, too."
I do have progressive photos, but it doesn't look like photos are a part of the site, nor would I presume anyone would want to see them either! - They might also put anyone off of ever doing OS too, and at the end of the day, I still don't know if I made the right choice or not.
Since I do live so close, the next time, (and I'm sure there will be one) I'll plan to include Dr Denkler in my evals. The PT group, CA Hand and Rehabilitation, has been just great and they have a little more impartial view of all available options, although collagen is still viewed a little dubiously.
Oh yeah - the guitar thing - played this weekend with mixed results. Two weeks of rust aside, my pinky won't go to bottom strings above the seventh fret or so, as it is too "fat" still to allow the proper attack angle. At this point I was playing way better before surgery, but I guess I have to give it time... the whole deal still reeks, though.
So there you have it - just wonderful.
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03/20/2007 01:28
jim hnot registered
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03/20/2007 01:28
jim hnot registered
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Re: Surgery Tomorrow 2-28
At 3 weeks the real recovery is just beginning. Don't be discouraged. The swelling, which will persist for months, now masks any real improvement from the surgery. Your fingers are thick, pale and stiff and it looks bad. But you haven't been in an industrial accident - the surgeon made precise cuts.
The answer is to do all the recommended PT, even though you don't think you're seeing immediate benefit. Full recovery takes a year - I've been through it twice. The time and effort you put into PT now pays off big down the road. You will gain back your range of motion a millimeter at a time.
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03/20/2007 03:19
DianeS 
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03/20/2007 03:19
DianeS
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Re: Surgery Tomorrow 2-28
Over the next few weeks and months you really will get better even though right now it seems like your finger will never bend again. it will.
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03/20/2007 07:08
wach  Administrator
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03/20/2007 07:08
wach Administrator
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pictures
really hard to tell whether anyone would like to see your fingers but uploading picture will become available in our forum software. In the next release, as usual, ... probably a couple of months down the road.
I had surgery, too, and it took me several months before I could make a fist again. That was three years ago, today my hand is working very well again, though I still can feel where I had surgery (the surgeon also cut out a part of the aponeurosis which probably wasn't a brilliant idea though certainly well meant). The downside in my case was that the healing process after surgery triggered aggressive Dupuytren in five other areas. If you have one cord remooved and as result get 5 new nodules you just can't win. This kind of reaction is not typical but it can happen, unfortunately you learn about it only after you had surgery.
Wolfgang
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... I do have progressive photos, but it doesn't look like photos are a part of the site, nor would I presume anyone would want to see them either! ...
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03/21/2007 17:11
JackStrawnot registered
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03/21/2007 17:11
JackStrawnot registered
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Re: Surgery Tomorrow 2-28
Thanks for all the encouragement.
On a related note, had an interesting PT treatment yesterday. Electrodes attached to my inner forearm that activated approximately every 20 seconds, causing my afflicted hand to constrict into a fist - It didn't hurt per se, but it was an unusual feeling.
It did help get the finger moving and that, along with an assist from my right hand got me the most bend in my post-op pinky. Anyone else have any experience with this technique?
Props to CA Hand & Rehab - they seem to have all the tools...
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