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07/23/2003 23:36
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07/23/2003 23:36
Mary Beth & Richardnot registered
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Scott, Randy is right, most of the controversy on the site is with one poster, not all. Check your email and post if you don't receive it.
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07/24/2003 23:29
Sean,not registered
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07/24/2003 23:29
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Scott, Be very careful about who you see to work on you in the military. You might not get the micro hand surgeon that you need, but don't settle for less. If none are available in the service with experience with Dupuytren's, get a civilian surgeon. Randy is right, everyone has a different diathesis so very unpredictable. I think almost everyone agrees that nodules should not be treated. Some people have nodules their whole lives and do not experience contraction. Good luck
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07/24/2003 23:25
Darla H.not registered
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07/24/2003 23:25
Darla H.not registered
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diathesis - trademark Gary/Sean word
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07/24/2003 23:10
Anon Emusnot registered
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07/24/2003 23:10
Anon Emusnot registered
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Dupuytren~sq~s Contracture (disease)
Jake, your stuttering.
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07/24/2003 23:36
Philnot registered
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07/24/2003 23:36
Philnot registered
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Dupuytren~sq~s Contracture (disease)
I am now thinking that years of weight lifting may have caused my DC. Not that I am a gym freak, but I have been known to pump iron over a period of several years. I never wore gloves. Now I am thinking that the resistance compression from using Nautilus, free weights, whatever, may have caused the problem or contributed to it. Nevertheless, I still think I had a disposition to it anyway.
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09/21/2003 23:57
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09/21/2003 23:57
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Dupuytren~sq~s Contracture (disease)
I've had a lunp on the palm of my hand for a little ofer a year. I'm a professional drummer. I took about 6 months off from drumming. When I tried to play again, my hand hurt pretty bad, more so after I stopped playing. My fingers were curled into my palm. When I went to see a docter, they referred me to a surgeon who told me what these bumps were, and about this disease.
Are there any other drummers here on this forum that can explain a bit more to me, and what I can expect for recovery.
feel free to email me at wickedvinn@yahoo.com
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09/29/2003 23:22
Chrisnot registered
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09/29/2003 23:22
Chrisnot registered
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Dupuytren~sq~s Contracture and surgery
I developed my first nodule at the age of thirteen after a glass cut to my right hand. My parents both have Dupuytren's contracture,and I am of Irish, English, Polish, and Ukranian descent. I am female. The nodule developed the typical cordlike pattern of DC at the age of thirty three. I am a chiropractor, and suffered the gradual contracture and compromise to my ability to effectively use my hand in practice. By the time I opted for surgery, I was in about a 45 degree flexion of the small digit on my right hand. I found a reputable hand surgeon, and he performed the surgery at about the age of thirty seven. I regained full extension of the digit within two weeks of surgery, as I was regimented in doing physical therapy on the hand to regain the most in range of motion. On my three week recheck, I came in to show the doctor what was a new nodule in my palm of the right hand (surgical side) at the second digit. I was not very happy about it, and he told me that flexion does not usually occur in the second digit and to "give it no credence". Since that time, the corded band has developed, but with little or no flexion deformity in that digit. I am forty three years old. In the past year I have developed a nodule in my left hand at the second digit.
I am interested in what is known for conservative treatment for DC, current research, and any options for treatment other than surgery.
As a side note, my father had a nodule on one hand, and experienced a fall some years later, landing on the nodule in hand extension. He noted significant improvement in the DC in the hand. My mother had surgery some years ago, and also experienced DC development post surgically.
The more informed we can be, the better.
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09/30/2003 23:37
Jon not registered
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09/30/2003 23:37
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Paul Binhammer Hand Wrist and Microvascular Surgery Sunnybrook and Women's College Health Sciences Centre 2075 Bayview Ave M1 Toronto, Ontario Canada M4N 3M5 (416) 480-6731 Fax (416) 480-6757 p.binhammer@utoronto.ca www.handsurgery.ca
Above is the name of a Toronto surgeon who does the NA treatment ( I believe only for Canadians ). I'm a musician and will try anything before submitting to surgery, skin grafts, etc. That's just me, you decide your own course. Just don't be pushed into it by people who obviously have their own agenda, i.e. drumming up business. Educate yourselves and God-damn the pusher man.
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10/01/2003 23:26
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10/01/2003 23:26
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Thanks for the informative post. Hopefully someday, this truly progressive treatment will be offered in the US.
I'm not sure who you are referring to as the 'pusher-man' but I suspect you maybe referring to the Gary/Sean poster.
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