Thunder,

That was my choice as well.....for now. Experience counts, but the Technique of the procedure is just as important. After some tips from the French, Eaton hit the ground running with a perfect safety record right from the start. Certainly other CHS will be able to duplicate his track record and are apparently doing so. As you know "first hand", it was up to you to tell Eaton if you felt an electrical tingle, meaning that the needle was near a nerve. That's the feedback loop that the as yet unconverted CHS don't realize makes NA as safe as it is.

Not only will the NA "Nerve Damage" issue be put to rest, but once the data from the expected 2,000 US procedures is presented, NA will look downright "safe" compared to Open Surgery's unfortunate nerve damage rate of 5%. To say that OS isn't an extremely important and sometimes necessary procedure is erroneous. However, the Nerve Damage shoe will be on the other foot.

G Foucher published a study about the results of NA in 2003. We missed this article by accident because it does not use the words 'Dupuytren's Contracture' directly.

The article can be found in PubMed under 'Prercutaneous needle aponeurotomy; complications and results'

Enjoy the reading everyone. Hope Dr. Eaton knows about this article because he can use it to back up his own work.

Anon

Perhaps NA is put this to rest. Every non NA hand doctor seems to use it.

Hi Randy,

I have to admit, I was completely blown away over *who* was talking about NA when I did my MSN and Google seaches. It seems all the time we have spent on the blasted computer is paying off. The news of NA *is* spreading. :-)

Anon

P.S. I'd still love to have an association for DC patients...after all...once this is all over...what are we going to do with ourselves?? ;-)

Had 3 surgeries for Dup 2 on my right hand 1on my left and had nerve damge 2 out of the 3 times. First was in my right pinky which left me with little to no feeling in my pinky finger fromabout 2 3rds of the way down on one side.Got some feeling back when the 2nd surgery was done by a diffrent Dr and he found the cut nerve and reatached it with no deffinat prog for it recovering but it actually di get a lot better now just no feeling on one side of the tip.
3rd surery was on my left hand and thumb were i lost some feeling in my thumb i have dup all over my hands not just in small areas. And then i had NA in my right thumb was told about the chance of nerve damage as there is a large one running up the thumb but what did i have to loose some more feeling give me a break 3 conventional surgeries 2 of which left nerve damage and one NA which didn't. As long as i can straighten my fingers and thumbs nerve damage is fairly small on my problemn list recovery and getting on with life means much more and NA i feel is a another avenue for us to try and when ever you have any kind off surgery theirs a chance some thing else might happen it would be better to ask yourself what can i deal with better.