Dr. Ketchum injects nodes with Triamcinolone. He may be able to delay onset of DD by injecting nodules. Has anyone tried this?

"This brings us back to the early stage of the disease when the nodules have been recently formed and diagnosed. It has been our experience that at this early stage before the contracture of a digit develops, a nodule can be softened and flattened by a series of usually three injections of Triamcinolone, a form of cortisone. We have been injecting nodules in patients with Dupuytren’s contracture for 29 years and recently observed a four year window in that experience. Over 90% of the injected nodules responded after a series of injections by softening and flattening and in some cases, the process remained dormant for many years. If it exacerbated, another series of Triamcinolone injections was administered. In this way, if found before digital contracture occurs, a majority of cases can be ameliorated and the course of the disease changed. Complications of the injections are atrophy of the skin around the injection site and depigmentation of the skin; both the atrophy and depigmentation usually resolve within six months of the last injection. The injections are not effective if a digital contracture has developed."

Dr. Eaton's Handcenter is www.handcenter.org. Very good information on that sight.
Patty

It is all in the inherited genes. You and your brother inherited the dna.
Patty

Do you have a contact address/e-mail etc for Dr Kechturn?
rgds Humph