Sean, you're welcome to your opinions. However a medical establishment that does not offer a humane option such as NA is seriously flawed. Let me ask you, do you think it should be an option available to the US health consumer, and if not please give some pretty comprehensive reasons. Don't just ask that we trust those who 'know better'.

I have severe allergies and have a wide option of choices. However for DC there are very few options. If you read about the doctor trying to practice NA in Canada you can see how the medical establishment responds to an attack on a cash cow.

There certainly are many disgruntled people on this forum, instead of simply dismissing them as malcontents, read their stories and understand where their anger is coming from.

Sean, you sound a lot like a previous shill for the medical industry that was on this board.

It's your choice to be docile and submissive if that's what you prefer.

You've thus far failed to answer questions that both Jerry & I have asked, based upon fairly strong postings that you've made. That's another tactic our ex medical shill practiced.

I suggest you read the many many postings by Gary 'Evans', you'd be doing this community a disservice to follow in his footsteps.

Hi Sean, really don't know other than to ask hand surgeons should I see one again, which I won't do for Dupuytren's. I think what will probably happen, is as they gradually continue to lose business/money (due to informed DC afflicted going to France) they will switch over. I think/hope it may be possible, also, that once Helena Spacek wins her fight in Canada that the floodgates will open.

There was a US physician I communicated with that was going to France to learn NA, but due to French insurance laws he was unable to do more than merely view the procedure.

Any suggestions you might have bring this humane, progressive treatment here would be greatly appreciated.

Okay, guys - let's not fight about it. I see my surgeon for another post-op visit on Feb. 12th. I'll ask her if she knows anything about NA at that time or if she knows of anyone in the US who is doing it or even training for it. Personally, I would love to find an alternative to the surgery.

Jerry,
That is why you must be bitter. I would be, too. You must have had a real problem before seeing a Dr.

My ring finger was 80 degrees contracted. My costs were as follows: Anesthesia $396.00, hospital $1914.00 (for three hours in operating/recovery room), Surgeon $1,266.00 and $189 for two visits to the therapist. After insurance, my total cost for the procedure was $403.00 plus $25.00 for travel expenses. I had a "limited fasciectomy". It has been about nine months since surgery and my hand is as good as it was before I had DC.

As you can tell, there wasn't a huge amount of money involved in my fairly routine surgery. Could you have had NA instead of your first surgery? Why did it cost so much?