I went to visit my parents over Thanksgiving Holiday and for the first time saw my dad's hands. He's 81 and knew he had something wrong with his hands, and confirmed by a doctor, but didn't know a name until I figured it out concerning my own hands. His condition has been apparently unchanged in years and he will never have any procedure done. He has about 10-15 degree contracture in one hand and none in the other. They don't bother him at all. He has worse problems to deal with like bad COPD. Here are the pics:
Thanks for sharing this. For the majority DD does not proceed past nodules, or cords with minor contracture, and in later years it is often quite slow. My mother had similar hands, modest contracture, and she hand no problems at all with normal activities, just some loss of grip strength and dexterity, but that was mostly aging joints.
I talked to my dad today and he claims his Dupuytrens has disappeared and has no problem making a flat hand now. See the attachment on my original post. Even though he had minimal contraction, it seemed his disease was quite extensive. I'm a bit in disbelief that it's actually gone and I've asked for a picture for proof. Has anyone heard of the disease spontaneously disappearing? I know nodes do, but I didn't think the cords would. I don't know if this may be a factor, but since he has severe COPD, he mostly just sits in a chair all day watching TV and has put nearly zero stress on his hands.
Occasionally but rarely, Dupuytren's improves. But I never heard that it vanished more or less over night. I understood your first post that your father had had a contracture over many years. If that improves it would improve only slowly or it was probably something else other than Dupuytren's.
I asked my sister to take a picture of my father's hands. She provided them do me. Turns out his disease looks not much different from what it did when I took the pictures in the attachment. I don't know what he's thinking in stating the disease is gone. Pretty weird.
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