Hi Winona,

You have asked the million dollar question for which there is no definitive answer. In Ontario Workers Comp Claims have been paid out for a few people who proved they were injured on the job and had none of the usually heredity/ medical indicators (age, family history, diabetes, epilepsy, alcoholism etc...). But to my knowledge there have been no posts from any other country with similar rulings.

Frances

Without the intent to bore anybody with my personal story: I developed six nodules within about one or two months after surgery, three of them on the not operated hand. I was told that the healing process is fostering the growth of the nodules (Dupuytren is sometimes described as an exaggerated healing process) and that this is not confined to just where the wound is because after a major trauma the production of cells is generally increased. True or not? Not a prove but sounds reasonable to me.

Wolfgang

After my surgery (not NA), one of the first things the doctor did (post op visit 10 days hence) was force may hand open & shut about 10 times. God it was painful, but I now understand that it had to be done - otherwise the healing process would leave me with frozen tendons and limited mobility.

After discovering NA, I had Dr Eaton do my other hand. He also applied some pressure to break up the DD growths, but it was about 1% as painful as above.

Sean, I had a fasciectomy using the Mccash method. Immediately after the bandages were removed I started therapy. Not the first day, but within a few days they had me opening and closing my hand at least 10 times a day. Sure it bled a bit. Big deal. But I think only the frozen shoulder therapy edged it out as the most painful experience of the last 10 years.

Sean, I think you're being a bit too sensitive about what you perceive as attacks on Open procedures. I doubt an unbiased observer reading the posts over the last year or so would read anything other than people reporting their individual experience. No one has ever question or doubted your highly successful Open procedure. All others here have done is report on theirs.

Now. Granted, you've made the point a long time ago (and recently Wolfgang also suggested) that it's mostly people with *lousy* OS experience who hang around here. Most people with *your* experience just go merrily on their way. That may explain what seems like bias on this site. However, I don't see evidence of "surgery bashing" lately. Just people that were not as fortunate as you were who are expressing the facts and their feeling regarding their experience. That's it. That's all it is.

Anyway, always good to see you around.

Randy