I'm livng in Europe (Finland) and having my 2nd surgery for L-hand next week. (The R-hand was fixed in June). These, about 40 degrees corrections for the 5. finger + 10 for 4. are made using "the traditional surgery". NA procedure is used only in 4 countries in Europe. I have been told that also in those countries the most common procedure is still surgery.

There are many different procedures also among the surgeries. One of these is "Segmental Aponeuroctomy". A wide study -with more than 500 patients- can be seen on: http://www.ccmbel.org/These.html (at the University of Bruxelles on May, 15 1997 by J.P.Moermans, M.D. Choose English). So, it is not only a question of UK or USA which does not accept NA. Also my hand surgeon has seen in Paris in a conference an Introduction of NA.

Gary, it has been some time since I had a good look at that thesis ( which is mostly a a bit too medical for me ), but the illustrations indicate that ( at least in that particular case ) the remnants of the cord disappear (!).

Has anyone with this disease tried 1000mg of Vitamin B=12 for this disease, I have a friend who had what he thought was a ganglia in is hands and it went away with B 12. Maybe he had this dupuytren's. Worth a try I would say. Thanks for listening. d