In a week and a half I go before an appeals board for my insurance company to try to have them pay for my NA. One of the things a hand surgeon who is unfamiliar with NA (virtually all of them) will tell a patient who brings up NA is that there is a great increase in the risk of nerve damage with NA compared to surgery. My look at the existing data, of which there is definitely not as much as I would like to see, demonstrates the opposite: that the risk of nerve damage is much higher with open-hand surgery. I am familiar with the low rates of complications in Badois' practice. What I would like to do here is to informally poll the readers of this site who have had NA - have any of you experienced nerve damage, and if so, to what extent?

Steve A.

Steve

look up www.nice.org.uk search for Dupuytren's

The British Society for Surgery of the Hand has approved the proceedure of Needle Fasciotomy. Perhaps I should say N.I.C.E. has approved the proceedure for the Hand Society.
As a result the British Medical Insurance Schemes approve NA.
I have had 30 years experience in the Insurance Industry and believe me if the Brits approve of these proceedures then everyone else should take notice. As well NA has been a French invention. You know what I mean!!

I had nerve damage with the regular hand operation about 5 years ago. I did not get any nerve damage with NA a couple of weeks ago.I felt a nerve being hit one time.

I had NA done on my little finger by Dr. Eaton 14 months ago. I had no nerve damage

The Pinkie PIP is the most difficult to straighten of *all* the Dups contractions. My surgeon prepared me with that knowledge and the probability of nerve damage as well as a residual 15 degrees bend (We waited until 45 deg., which is the customary practice with Open Surgery). Well, he was *right*. I have a final 15 degrees and have lost about 40% of feeing in the finger two years later.

Ken, are you telling us that you went from a 50 PIP to near Zero degrees?