That is a great article . Thank you Dr. Denkler for posting it.
A course of steroid injections have been recommended to me for a lump located on my little finger. The article refers to possible complications. Does anybody have any experience or knowledge of the potential side effects of steroid injections?
Donald

My husband had the injections when he had the NA procedure. That was on June 28th and now he has only one small nodule. Prior to the procedure he had numerous lumps in his palm. He thought they were calluses. He is very happy with the results.

Sandie

Joe, for a start you might have a look at

http://www.dupuytren-online.info/dupuytren_steroids.html

Wolfgang

Edited at 08/09/07 17:25

Actually I think that hand surgeons are the ideal specialists for NA. They know more about the hand than anybody and I trust they can do the right thing it the inlikely event of a serious damage, like massive skin rupture or nerve damage. There is a lot of educational work to do until NA becomes taught to hand surgeons at university ... we will succeed eventually.

Wolfgang

Edited at 08/09/07 17:47

My husband started getting the lumps in his right palm at least 10 years ago. While at the Dr. office for something else, my husband showed him his palm and asked if there was any treatment. My husband thought they were calluses from pushing on his handdrill at work. The idiot doctor told my husband that all of us used to walk on our knuckles and there wasn't any treatment.

My husband's father had Dupuytren's but never had it diagnosed. When my husband's fingers started bending over I came across an article from the Mayo clinic that discribed it. That was five to six years ago. My husband just ignored the condition, saying that it was his right hand and didn't really need it because he is left handed. Then it got to the point a year ago that he couldn't put on gloves, shake hands and basically started to lose the use of the hand altogether. He couldn't open his hand enough to pick items up to move them, couldn't grasp a rope, etc.

He went to a new family doctor, who sent him to a hand specialist. The specialist did discuss the enzyme treatment, but said that due to the severety of his ring finger, he wouldn't be a good candidate. He never mentioned NA. He did say that we need to have the surgery done and discussed the different types of surgery. I spent weeks investigating all the different treatments available. The decision we made was that surgery should be the last treatment, if all else fails.

What really mad us angry is the fact that none of the surgeons or doctors are even acknowledging that NA exists. With everything that we find on the internet, you can't tell me that these "specialist" no nothing about it. This is their profession of course they are aware of it. They just can't make as much money performing NA as performing "surgery".

Anyway, we chose Dr. Kline who is in located right next to the border of Idaho and Oregon. He requested that we send him specific of my husband's hand, so he could diagnose the percentage of contracture and determine if NA would be a possibility. He said that my husband was a very good candidate so we made an appt for the procedure. He charges $650.00 per finger, which my husband needed it done to his ring and pinky finger, and $125.00 for the injections to the lumps. After looking at the ring finger in person, and due to the fact that due to other family matters, we couldn't book the procedure for 2 months, Dr. Kline felt that he might not be able to get the ring finger to 100%. The finger had been pulled in so tight for so long that he actually had a yeast infection growing up in the closed creases of the finger. There was little pain during the procedure. The only painful part was when the doctor manually straightens the finger to break any remaing cords that were too small to find with the needle. CONTINUED >>>>>