Thanks for your advice Marjorie. I will certainly look into NA possibilities further. While, from what I read, it is not necessarily the "no brainer" suggested by Tolucca below, it looks a much better option and less invasive than surgery. I guess what we all really long for is some better understanding of the condition and a more long term solution. Hence my interest in other alternatives as well as NA.

I looked back to some of the earlier posts on acupuncture and the discussion seemed to quickly polarise between advocates who'd had some success and critics who believed it was acupuncturists touting for business. I am somewhere in the middle. I have no special interests to push and am generally quite sceptical about many alternative therapies (especially when they come with psychobabble), but my conclusion about my acupuncture treatment is that it probably had some beneficial effect in stopping DC progress but without any miracle reversing effect. Therefore, I don't think we should dismiss it and only pin our hopes on NA, which seems to be the case in much of what I've read in this forum. So I'd be very interested to hear of anyone else with good or bad experience of other alternatives...

Nick

Nick

Nick,

As yet, nothing has been shown to effectively stop this disease. Nothing. And, at this time there are only three corrective interventions in existence: Open Surgery, NA, and Collagenase injections. If you are considering a medical intervention, only OS and NA are currently available.

They are as different as night and day. And yes, it is in fact a No Brainier to try NA before engaging in major surgery of the hand. While this is certainly matter of opinion, it is the opinion shared universally by all who have experienced it. Other than rare cases of unacceptable rates of recurrence, I have yet to see or hear of a single negative patient report concerning NA. There is good reason why those of us who have actually had NA are so enthusiastic.

I realize the lack of similar enthusiasm on the part of the medial establishment must be taken into account by those considering their options. Because of that it's really only the doctors who perform NA, and the patients who have had it, that really know what they are talking about. I'm sure that sounds very cut and dry, but there is really no other way to say it.