I started getting Dupuytrens lumps in my right hand a few months ago plus I have a detectable chord. So far, no detectable loss of functionality.

I'm a youthful 61 year old in otherwise good health. I had been doing yoga for several years before this emerged.

As other yoga practitioners know, there are positions which BOTH put heavy pressure on the palms of the hands AND REALLY STRETCH the fingers straight at the same time!

I surmise that many people associate the triggering of Duputrens with some trauma to the hand.

On the other hand, I remember another yoga student commenting that if she didn't do her yoga regularly, she couldn't keep her fingers from bending in a lot. (This was perhaps 6 months before my symptoms began, but I am guessing she had D.C.).

In a recent yoga class I tried shifting weight off my lower palms to where my fingers join upper palm. Within several days I had a new little lump right under where my 3rd finger joins the palm. Yikes!!!

Any other yoga folks have comments about benefits/risks of positions which pressure palms and also stretch fingers? Might extra padding help? Or readjusting positions? Have you kept your practice up but modified it? Have you quit altogether? Etc. etc. Any feedback would be great!

Susan

Please check out one of the other threads where I posted links to articles exposing Bikram. He is a money hungry huckster attempting to profiteer off the misery of others.

I have been doing yoga for about 4 years and have definitely notice problems this past year and things have been heating up in the hand department at the same time.

I have vowed this week to cut out downdag, plank and other hand stretching positions unitl I can modify them. Using handle like things isn't good as the pressue on the cords is very bad. putting the hands into fists doesn't provide god support so it is either elbow positons like the dolphin variant of down dog, or none aat all for me.

I haven't tolkd my yoga instructor yet, but she will just have to deal wiht it, it is my practice after all.

Please see the thread titled 'Yogiraj Bikram Choudhury' for links to articles exposing the Don King of the yoga world.

I took a class from a teacher of Yogiraj Bikram Choudhury's school. It hurt to extend my fingers. My bent fingers did not become straight. I quit because it hurt too much.