| Lost password
221 users onlineYou are not loggend in.  Login
Knowledgable Docs in Connecticut?
 1
 1
06/19/2013 14:11
dierenarts 
06/19/2013 14:11
dierenarts 

Knowledgable Docs in Connecticut?

Writing on behalf of my wife and looking for good docs in Connecticut who are at least aware of hand/feet fibromas. (Her regular MD said the nodules are from drinking so obviously clueless there). She is 55 and has two moderately sized nodules in the plantar aspect of both feet and smaller ones on the palmar aspect of both hands. As she is also a diet controlled diabetic, we certainly want to avoid any surgical procedures which seem to be generally useless anyway. Glad to have found this forum and look forward to sharing your experiences and treatment options.

K.L.

06/20/2013 02:46
Tusk 
06/20/2013 02:46
Tusk 
Re: Knowledgable Docs in Connecticut?

Look here for starters. http://www.dupuytren-online.info/NA_list_North_America.html
I'm sure someone might have a personal recommendation.

Edited 06/20/13 05:46

06/20/2013 14:32
LubaM. 
06/20/2013 14:32
LubaM. 
Re: Knowledgable Docs in Connecticut?

dierenarts:
Writing on behalf of my wife and looking for good docs in Connecticut who are at least aware of hand/feet fibromas. (Her regular MD said the nodules are from drinking so obviously clueless there). She is 55 and has two moderately sized nodules in the plantar aspect of both feet and smaller ones on the palmar aspect of both hands. As she is also a diet controlled diabetic, we certainly want to avoid any surgical procedures which seem to be generally useless anyway. Glad to have found this forum and look forward to sharing your experiences and treatment options.

K.L.
As Tusk suggested, check out the list of providers. Although I don't have personal experience with Dr. Nelson his website contains a very informative and well presented page on all the different treatments available. Because your wife is at the beginning stages (just nodules) I would recommend (from personal experience) that you look into Radiotherapy (referred to as RT). I had RT on one hand and for two hard, marble size nodules on my left foot in 2009, and it was very successful, especially in the foot to stop the progression of the disease. The nodules are 90% gone. This is a great forum, read all you can...post questions, and many will respond...

You might want to also post your question on the Dupuytren's section.

Dr. Andy Nelson (CHS; Board Certified Orthopaedic Surgeon)
The Hand To Shoulder Center
1320 West Main Street, Building 2
Waterbury, CT (Connecticut) 06708
Phone: (203) 755-7115

 1
 1
dierenarts   procedures   Orthopaedic   Radiotherapy   treatment   informative   Knowledgable   recommendation   controlled   especially   experience   successful   moderately   experiences   treatments   progression   nodules   dupuytren-online   personal   Connecticut