Good question. I doubt if you will get an answer from a doctor. My guess however is that they see so much illness that on the big scale of things, recovery from DC surgery is a drop in the bucket.

My big beef with our family doctor and surgeon is that they both said one surgery would 'take care of it nicely'. I assumed that this meant one surgery was all I would need - there was no mention what's so ever of the possibility of reoccurence - When I found out that DC may return even after surgery I felt betrayed because I needed that information to make a proper choice of treatment.

Quite frankly, after I asked around to see if anyone else in my family had this ... I found out that DC was severe in our family and those who had it ended up with multiple surgeries because the DC always returned within six weeks - 6 months. An uncle - deceased - was reported to have hands that were so scarred and crippled that they were no longer useable - all he had had were three surgeries and the doctors wanted to do more - he refused.

I think the issue of 'trauma and DC' was the overall problem with the surgery so with this information about our family tree I decided that I would not have the surgery - ever - that's when I began exploring alternatives and found NA.

I've had NA, my hands are not perfect, but I am happy with the result.

HH