Thanks. Do you feel the resistance bands are easier on your hand than the metal bars on the Bow Flex. We have several attachments that aren't metal. Perhaps I should try them. Maybe I will try the bands.

dpjcrfsh and salspecs; At risk of causing offense I must say, as I have many times on this site, this is the good cancer. You don't die from it. Don't turn it into something more serious.

Maybe protecting you hands and avoiding certain activities will slow the progression of the disease but if the consequence is that you reduce you exercise program and loose fitness the consequences could be more detrimental. I have had DD and LD for more than 45 years and throughout that time I have been a constant gym participant. I spend no less than 5 hours a week on elliptical trainers of all types, I use free weights, I use weight machines and pulleys. There has never been I time in that period where I have not been regular in a gym plus played field hockey in my twenties, squash until my 40's and, for the last 20 years tennis 3 times a week.

I say all this simply to point out that this punishment of my hands has been continuous yet I have had long periods of inactivity from my DD. There are times when I get intense activity sometimes with both hands at the same time. I have not been able to identify a trigger. My activities have been constant. I am not a smoker, I do like good wine and I hear that alcohol could be a factor but my LD and DD started while I was in my early teens so it is hard to see how that could be a factor in my case.

My view is that you should carry on as normal. Treat the symptoms not the cause as we don't know the cause. If gloves help you do something then wear gloves but but don't stop doing something because you think it might be aggravating the DD.

Seph

Hi salspecs; In referring to DD as the good cancer I am intending it as a metaphor. There seems to be a correlation between DD and other conditions (eg diabetes and frozen shoulder) but I'm note sure that there is a causal connection.

If there is a link between DD and some cancers I think it likely that it might be a one way causal connection. My sense is that diabetes and alcoholism may trigger DD and maybe some cancers do the same but I doubt that the reverse applies. Maybe there are other conditions that are triggered by the same process that causes DD.

Having said that most, if not all, of the people that I know with DD have had frozen shoulder at some point but otherwise all seem to be in good health and consider DD to be a nuisance rather than an illness. Some of these people, like me, have had DD for decades.

I have not heard of Dupuytrens being referred to as a Cancer even by Oncologists. It is rather a Non Malignant Condition .

Dupuytren's is sometimes classified as "benign tumour". Cancer is also a tumour but not benign but malignant. More commonly Dupuytren Disease is called a (superficial) fibromatosis.

"Superficial fibromatoses are fibroblastic proliferations that arise in the palmar or plantar soft tissues and are characterized by infiltrative growth. They have a tendency toward local recurrence but do not metastasize."

from World Health Organization Classification of Tumours
http://www.iarc.fr/en/publications/pdfs-...gen/bb5/BB5.pdf

Wolfgang

Newman:

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I have not heard of Dupuytrens being referred to as a Cancer even by Oncologists. It is rather a Non Malignant Condition .

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