I had the NA procedure on 1-19-04. My right hand pinky finger was at 90 degrees and definitely in the growth stage. The procedure was a complete success and Dr. Eaton and his entire staff were exceptional. The entire waiting room was full of dupuytrens patients. It was the best decision I ever made concerning the dupuytrens. I had surgery on my left hand in Denver, and it was a complete failure. The most remarkable thing about NA is that I left the office with minimal pain--Dr, Eaton really had to work hard to release my finger. My procedure was at 11:00 a.m.,
after my husband and I went out to lunch, shopped and got back to our hotel room around 8:00 p.m. The recovery time from my surgery was incredibly long, and I went to physical therapy for about three months. When I walked out of his office, I felt like a new person. I have never met a doctor or staff quite like them. Thank you Dr. Eaton, Micky and Janice -- you are all wonderful.

Well after 2 or 3 years of watching this forum and waiting for news of U.S. practitioner, guess where and from whom I learned about a doctor doing NA in FL....

Dr. Badois while on his table in Paris getting my hands treated.

I had quit watching the forum when I had made my appointments and booked my flights and rented an apartment for a week.

The good news is, I got to go to Paris.

Steve Burke
Buckeye, AZ

So what can we do to get hand drs. to use NA in the USA? Do we need to organize and form a society? Do we need mass mailings? Do we need to submit information to newspapers so they will compose articles about NA. Can we convince TV stations to report on NA. What will it take to get more hand drs to accept and practice NA?

Randy H,
Six procedures a day, 5 days a week for 200 days is 6 thousand procedures a year. If 50 surgeons did this it would be 300,000 dupuytren's procedures every year. That seems like quite a few.

In response to Randy's response to my earlier post:

We did not discuss any drop off in American bookings for Dr. Badois, but he did not seem concerned about it. His backlog is a few months, which is why I didn't see info about Dr. Eaton. I was convinced Europe only option and booked because mine was getting very aggresive.