I fully support the work of Dr. Bourland. He is a fine hand doctor. He knows NA thoroughly, as his many satisfied patients will attest. I urge you to contact Dr. Bourland or Dr. Eaton if you have DD and you wish to be treated by NA. Please consider NA before you take the one way road that leads to surgery.

Frances

This thread has good information.

Indeed a NEW YEAR. Yesterday I had the NA procedure performed by DR. Keith Denkler in Larkspur, California. Dr. Denkler is a plastic surgeon who has performed many hand reconstructions, NA procedures, and has written and published extensively on the hand. His procedure and the results were excellent and as someone who had the NA procedure performed in Paris in August 2003 I can testify that yesterday's experience was many grades above the Parisian one. My contracture's had not recurred, but I underwent a maintenance procedure because the session was taped for viewing on the Dr Dean Edell medical segment on the KGO-TV evening news program(an ABC affiliate) in San Francisco in March. In addition to releasing some minor additional chords on 2 fingers, Dr Denkler did some very successful work on the PIP joint(the doctor in Paris would not attempt NA on this joint)on my right pinkie improving the contracture from -75 degrees to -40 degrees. I could go on, but for those of us on the left coast, Dr Keith Denkler is an option if not the answer. He is located at 275 Magnolia Ave, Larkspur Ca 94939, Tel # 415-924-6010. He has a web site and the URL is available via a simple Google search.

That sentence should have read, '...who has no Paris-NA training...'

Please accept my correction

B.E.

Having experienced the NA procedure in Paris and here in California I can assure the doubters and naysayers that Dr. Denkler is not self taught. He is an expert on Dupuytren's disease and has lectured and written extensively on the topic. In my situation, he quickly identified the most vulnerable area on the chord, marked the 2 spots to extracate and broke the bond immediately. I remember the practitioner in Paris (not an MD doctor by the way) leterally fishing with a 25 gauge needle to find the spot to rupture the chord. Why you folks are fixated on "Parisian or French" training you should know that Dr. Denkler expained to me the major contribution the French practitioners made to the procedure was the realization that it is best to rupture the chord at a high and low spot for the best results, exactly how he approached my fingers. Or to put it in his words. "I am an expert on Dupuytren's due to the fact that I have training in hands specifically, (boards), I did a fellowship, I teach hands at UCSF, I have lectured at UCSF on Dupytrrens, I have presented papers on Dupuytrens at national and international plastic surgery meetings and I have a publication on Dupuytren's coming out in the next month or two in the Journal of Plastic Surgery."