I have treated a few men with Dupuytren's contracture, using deep tissue and myofascial release techniques. I suggest a daily application of DMSO and either Castor oil or Emu oil. This soften's up the tissue before treatment. Not a cure, but a monthly maintenance regime that stops the disease from progression. Quite usefull if you have a year or so wait before surgery, or wish to avoid it altogether.
For whatever its worth, I found your advice to be true. I started using 70% DMSO solution to my palm after developing nodules 5 years ago. I apply it liberally after showering, every other day. I had drawing of the 4th and 5th digits of one hand, a 20 degree PIP joint contracture, and was unable to place weight upon the opened hand without pain. Nodules were mostly over the flexor tendons to the 5th finger. I also had painful nodules during grip of tools. I have worked on manually stretching out total curvature of the digit ray after DMSO application. I have decreased curvature and decreased tenderness of the nodules and maintained that gain over 2 to 3 years.The 20 degree loss of passive extension of the PIP joint. The nodules are still present but it is delight to be able to place weight on my extended hand and use tools without pain and the every other day routine is certainly worth it. Hopefully I can avoid ever having to undergo surgery.
I use it for my lower back back pain every day, usually 3 to 4 times per day. That's where it it really shines--musculoskeletal pain. My wife and I both swear by it and use so much of it that I buy it buy the gallon. Getting old can be a challenge but DMSO has helped.
We were using it successfully but eventually the odor got the best of us. I can smell it as soon as I walk in the door if my husband has used it. And family has commented on the smell. My husband’s golf partner finally gave him an ultimatum!
Yes, it does have an onion or garlic type sulphur smell that seems more potent with some body chemistries (garlic is the same with a lot of people). You might try Methylsulfonylmethane (MSM), a common supplment that is a "cousin" of DMSO. it is reported to have many of the same benefits, without the odor.
A good cover for the fragrance is a menthol-camphor type of liniment. It can also be offensive, but I figure it is probably a better "stink". :-) And it fits with an athletic setting.
I learned I had Dupuy... nodules from a hand surgeon in passing, too soon to worry. Later, after taking DMXO orally for several months, I noticed they had retreated significantly. I stopped the DMSO before realizing this, and haven't re-started, but the nodules remain tiny and not affecting anything.
I have been using DMSO on my nodules also along with iodine for about 5 years. The nodules haven't progressed to tight tendons in that time. I use castor oil on my face so my hands also are exposed to that daily. I am going to start using a mineral based silica supplement to see if that helps to soften the existing nodes. The nodes don't restrict my fingers at all yet and I'd like to keep it that way. (I do regular massage and stretching) My mother had surgery and it didn't really help. My 6 siblings all also have DC.
I don't know what a nodule looks like. I didn't notice that my left hand had fully developed cords until my middle-aged years. The first two fingers have "palmbones," a friend and I called them before I learned the proper name. The 4th finger has one that bifurcates from the middle of the palm toward the little finger. In an enforced suboptimal living situation, I see the index finger and little finger have developed small ones on the 3rd joint. The right hand, my dominant one, remains free of them. I have no contracture or mobility impairment, however, at 79. Why would it afflict only the hand less used? Not enough exercise? I'm a mostly one-hand typist.
Humans are flexion oriented creatures especially in the hand region. Flexor contractions are easily treated with advanced bodywork skills and repetition starting in the neck region, working downward, and bilateral spinal musculature. Most humans want the quick, surgical solution that the surgeon offers instead of the lifetime of doing some stretches, basic exercises and maybe having to pay an "alternative"(lol) manual practitioner to release the fascia(glue).
Medicine rarely pays for a "massage therapist" for treatment as massage is what wives get on cruise ships, right?
This falls in a similar camp to carpal tunnel, which also, is clearable with the right touch! Almost every time......
A friend, now deceased, was studying to become a stenographer, who have to be able to type and insane 150 wpm minimum. but the best could type 300 wpm with their specially constructed keyboard, where each key is a syllable, and some double key combinations can record common phrases. But carpal tunnel of her right hand restricted her sessions because of the pain. A fellow gardener, she observed my work and that I always took the stairs to my sixth floor apartment, usually several times a day, instead of the elevator unless my arms were weighted down with groceries. She taught me some gardening tips she'd gotten from her mother. I told her I could help with the carpal tunnel. I wanted to show her a book I had, perhaps Gabriel Cousens' "Conscious Eating," and invited her up to my room. She called for the elevator. I told her I wasn't going to wait, and went to the stairs, telling her I could beat the elevator. The elevator won, barely, but by the time she turned the corner and started walking the hall to my room, my breathless state was subsiding. Once she arrived, she said, "You're not even out of breath, Bob, how do you do that?" That's when she decided to take me seriously. I was a runner. She transitioned quickly under my guidance, he favorite breads, comfort foods, being the hardest foods for her to give up. She was maybe 5'8", big boned, but still seriously overweight at 185 pounds, but she wore it well. The extra weight didn't show. Fortunately, she had part-time job at the Dillards clothing store because the extra weight was coming off fast. Every month, she had to replace much of her wardrobe as the weight fell off. She began at 2x and lost a size every couple weeks. When she got down to size 8, she asked, "When is this going to stop, Bob?" She was no longer enjoying what she was experiencing, and it was getting expensive. She always went for Pendleton, quality over economy. I think she ended up at 4, maybe lower, but her carpel tunnel was gone, and so were 45 unnecessary pounds.
Her family had endured the WW II German bombing raids in London. Her father was a submarine captain disappearing for months to sink German boats. He sent his family enough money to leave for Canada to ride out the war. Her sister and mother remained in London, Ontario, but Jackie found work as an academic editor, and headed South, ending up in Toledo, Ohio, in retirement, where we met. Her lungs had lasting damage from the smoke of the German bombing raids. At age 16, the doctors didn't know what to do were her breathing difficulties after determining it wasn't TB, but they gave her a series of injections to her chest. I taught her to start aerobic exercise, where we got free, 6-week trial memberships at a local gym. When we started, she couldn't even chase after a bus for more than a block or so. While I was running laps, she was fast walking half a lap, slowing down or resting the other half, then trying again. She worked to jogging slowly.
Meanwhile, she told me she was allergic to oranges. They caused her whole chest area to break out in a rash. Apples she could handle. I told her to keep eating the oranges, as much as she could stand. She was detoxing something, and the citrus would get more tolerable in time. Meanwhile, I went to the internet to find out what drug could cause skin rashes. I discovered penicillin could do that. Aha! That made so much sense as what the cause was. She persisted, and the "allergy" to oranges disappeared.
Then one day, after actually running an entire mile with out stopping, she felt something give way inside her chest, maybe a protective biofilm of some sort, and she came to me excited. "Bob, for the first time since I was a little girl, I can now take deep breaths. It feels so good to be able to really breathe!"
Whenever I see health miracles like that, it always makes my day, my week, maybe a longer lasting high. I hope someone else can benefit from hat story.
dr. Lee Merritt healed herself as a result of using dmso. no surgery. she was using for a different purpose. mixing cd and dmso in the palm of her hand to apply it on a spot on her ear. and her dupuytren's disappered.
It's the "eating for two" pregnancy that causes excess weight gain, but I applaud the creative alternate solution. How strong was the H2O2? I've heard different suggestions. Dr. Mercola says only .01% is sufficient for covid. And the DMSO? I tried evaporating an essential oil once or twice, but I didn't like to see my walls and ceiling getting greasy, I don't know what others do about that.
I could fill a whole page on post partum depression, but my short answer is that when micronutrient status is barely sufficient for the mother during pregnancy, both her and the baby will suffer. Nature's wisdom says the older life is on the way out, so let's make her dump enough of what she has left into the new life in the hope that it will do better. The B family of vitamins are considered the "happy vitamin's." Women who avoid legumes and other foods rich in those vitamins can easily fall into that condition.
OK, here comes more. Apprenticing at a biodynamic farm one year, modeled after Rudolph Steiner's insights, I heard that during the winter break, the pregnant cow collapsed after dropping her foal. It lay in the cold day after day, while the farmers waited patiently while the conventional farmers next door were urging them to get her to market before she could become an unsellable corpse. Instead, the large animal vet was called in for a Dx. Testing her blood revealed a selenium deficiency, common in modern soils, especially in the Midwest. He gave her a large injection of vitamins/minerals, and the farmers waited. After 10 days of fasting, the cow finally stood up and began eating again.
Besides getting physically well, the farmers also noticed a personality change in that animal. She had always been very nervous and skittish around people, a genetic legacy of domestic cattle, no doubt. But from then on, she became warm and friendly eating out of their hands, enjoying getting petted. She knew what the humans could've done to her and did not.
Despite the cultish abuses of Scientologists, they under stand nutrition better than most MDs. Tom Cruise was right to call Brooke Shields out for going the drug route for her PPD.
It seems you may have been trying to "evaporate" herbal infused oils, not essential oils, if your walls were getting greasy!! Essential oils, unlike their name, are not oils at all, but volatile components of the plant. They do not leave oily residues unless they are mixed into oils.
What is cd? Do you mean the vitamins? A dear friend who died about 2 years ago had full-blown Dupuytren's. The fingers of both hands were curled into claws, but that didn't stop him from endless typing on his computer, cross-country skiing in his winter home on Northern Lake Tahoe, getting under his mobile home every spring and fall for maintenance, changing tires, to spend summers down South on Big River, CA, where he spent hours rowing his canoe over rapids, swinging kettlebells, and climbing trees, even when fasting! I wish he had known what this article contains, more exhaustive than either of us could uncover, and now your note that sees reversal without surgery, which he rightfully shied away from.
Speaking of ears, has anyone found a way to resurrect the dead hair cells that cause permanent hearing loss? Would butyrate help? I'd like to know. I suspect cellphone damage to be one culprit, and I've learned that all SSRI antidepressant dugs cause deafness and macular degeneration over decades of use. A HS friend of mine has already started experiencing both after maxxing out on Prozac I had once got her to wean away from it, supervised by a cooperative shrink. She had told me, "I don't need it anymore. I just take the smallest dose about every other day because the news is so depressing." "Then stop watching the news!" I told her, but she's addicted to the tell-a-vision.
I have worked with a number of people with this condition. Teaching people to work on themselves with manual therapy (active release and massage like techniques) has been incredibly effective--meaning they have avoided surgery and cease to notice any discomfort and have normal hand function. Daily (frequent short applications throughout the day) work on themselves over several months. DMSO and Castor oil periodically applied to this regime is even faster. There are also a few subtle mobility exercises that lengthen and spiral through the hands and forearms -- essentially redirecting and allowing the body to correct the load pathways over time. It's a puzzle of load and force distribution that needs to be tapped into by the individual in which this is occurring. The impacted person has to learn to feel their way through it.
I was surprised that there was no mention of DMSO in this article, and no references to stuck fascia as a potential cause of the problem.
I have a friend with this issue who chose the surgical route. We met as teenagers in a junior bowling traveling league. We bowled together for more than a decade, when in our last tournament together we won a handicapped doubles tournament. It was his first 1st place finish and first paycheck in bowling (and his only handicapped win), and it was when I decided to move on to other interests (it was my only paycheck in bowling).
He went on to become a professional bowler, continuing on into his early sixties. In his case, I suspect the Dupuytren's was partly due to the bowling. But I suspect the cause may have been years of punishment to his fascia from motocross racing. Fascia often gets stuck as the result of trauma, though I don't know why that is. Racing and crashing go hand-in-hand. And a lot of the force of landing from jumps gets transmitted directly to the palm. It's easy to envision that the fascia of his palm was a hot mess from the years of abuse that his body endured.
My uninformed theory is that fascial problems develop most often at the endpoint of force transmission and/or the point of contact. So a trauma to the shoulders would cause the body to try to dissipate that force along a kinetic chain. Along the arm, the end of that chain would be the palm.
That doesn't explain the connection to Peyronie's disease. Unless that's just a similar force transmission that terminates at the penis.
It just shows how lifestyle can explain "genetic" connections. The problem is that a lot of different lifestyles can lead to the same fascial injuries...
Of course my friend buys the genetic lie, just like with the macular hole that he developed. "Because science." (End of conversation.)
Very interesting! I had my left hand cut from the ring finger to the base of the palm 20 years ago. Dupuytren’s never returned. Two years ago, the process began in my right hand with an ugly thickening at the base of the ring finger. I never had this thickening with the left hand. The tendon is now very taut in the palm area and the finger curving very noticeably. I am scheduled for a needle aponeurotomy in early 2027 and the surgeon said he won’t touch the actual lump. Apparently I can drive home afterwards.
I tried the DMSO but smelled like a rotting garlic clove so didn’t pursue that. I will try it again though. I would love to find someone to do a fascia release. I do not drink alcohol, have never smoked, and am generally in good health.
I received generic Levaquin in the hospital for a severe abdominal infection that resulted in an emergency appendectomy about 10 years ago. It immediately triggered Dupuytren's contracture. I also sustained other neurological problems that eventually resolved themselves but the Dupuytrens stayed. A doctor I saw at UCLA for something else said there was no connection between the Levaquin and my condition but I remain unconvinced considering the symptoms appeared literally minutes after I was given the drug intravenously. 10 years later it has not worsened and my hand is fully functional except I can't place the palm of my hand flat on the ground with fingers spread. It makes it slightly more challenging to do yoga. Doctors are sometimes utterly clueless, imho.
My mother, my 2 brothers, and myself have this problem. My mother just accepted it, my 2 brothers had surgery, with it returning. I opted for the radiation treatment, under Seeganschmiedt in Germany ( it was cheaper to fly to Germany for a week and stay in an apartment and pay €1,000 cost of 5 x radiation treatment than pay privately in UK). I have nodules only, slight constriction of thumb on one hand. Nodules on both hands and feet. I had this September 2020. The follow up procedure was scuppered due to Coronomania and no flights. I ended up paying much more for private treatment for the second round which had to happen within 6 months of starting treatment. It's 6 years since I started the treatment. My hands have not deteriorated further. Whether they would is an unknown. However, I'm satisfied that the treatment, totally painless, has done me no harm and may have benefitted me. We are of East Prussian decent, all smokers, who enjoy an occasional tipple!
I think I said that because my dad had dupins and he always had a brick troll in his hand because he was a brick Mason for 50 years I just always assumed that's what caused it excessive use. Click on my name, click posts, read my book. You have to go all the way to the bottom and then read up.
Fair enough, besides heavy drinkers, Dupuytrens Contracture is also common in Northern Europeans Scandanavians, Ageing Smoker's , Diabetes and repeated Hand trauma like a Bricky experiences.
My husband has DD. After tons of research, we opted for the radiation treatment. That was in 2022 and it stopped the progression so far. DD also runs in my family. I noticed a painless hard bump growing on my ring finger knuckle. I started applying DMSO several times a day and within 2 months it’s now gone.
Thanks for this informative article. I too find DMSO and hand stretches very useful, I often wonder if splinting my hand overnight might benefit my slight finger curve. I have also noticed food allergies affect the curvature of my finger if I'm very careful and avoid all the the foods that cause allergic swelling of that area I'm able to straighten the finger without manual manipulation.
Could you write an article about EDS/hEDS PLEASE 🙏 I have been diagnosing it in my practice for many years in adults who NEVER had a diagnosis for their issues before!! It’s ridiculous how this major issue goes unrecognized constantly
Thank you for all you do- I post much of your work on my FB weekly❤️
I have a friend who came home one day and her husband was on the floor in a full blown seizure which would not stop. Under hospital treatment it was stopped and he was eventually allowed home. He had recently had a second surgery for Duyputren's. I wondered if lacking magnesium was a factor for both problems. They had been runners all their lives, no drinking or smoking. Travelled to many countries. So a few vaccine shots in the system.
I have treated a few men with Dupuytren's contracture, using deep tissue and myofascial release techniques. I suggest a daily application of DMSO and either Castor oil or Emu oil. This soften's up the tissue before treatment. Not a cure, but a monthly maintenance regime that stops the disease from progression. Quite usefull if you have a year or so wait before surgery, or wish to avoid it altogether.
For whatever its worth, I found your advice to be true. I started using 70% DMSO solution to my palm after developing nodules 5 years ago. I apply it liberally after showering, every other day. I had drawing of the 4th and 5th digits of one hand, a 20 degree PIP joint contracture, and was unable to place weight upon the opened hand without pain. Nodules were mostly over the flexor tendons to the 5th finger. I also had painful nodules during grip of tools. I have worked on manually stretching out total curvature of the digit ray after DMSO application. I have decreased curvature and decreased tenderness of the nodules and maintained that gain over 2 to 3 years.The 20 degree loss of passive extension of the PIP joint. The nodules are still present but it is delight to be able to place weight on my extended hand and use tools without pain and the every other day routine is certainly worth it. Hopefully I can avoid ever having to undergo surgery.
I've been reading about DMSO and it's uses. I think it's time to get some!
I use it for my lower back back pain every day, usually 3 to 4 times per day. That's where it it really shines--musculoskeletal pain. My wife and I both swear by it and use so much of it that I buy it buy the gallon. Getting old can be a challenge but DMSO has helped.
We were using it successfully but eventually the odor got the best of us. I can smell it as soon as I walk in the door if my husband has used it. And family has commented on the smell. My husband’s golf partner finally gave him an ultimatum!
I have been using for year for a number of things.
Very interesting! Thank you for sharing.
The smell put me off as friends noticed it right away and so did I.
Yes, it does have an onion or garlic type sulphur smell that seems more potent with some body chemistries (garlic is the same with a lot of people). You might try Methylsulfonylmethane (MSM), a common supplment that is a "cousin" of DMSO. it is reported to have many of the same benefits, without the odor.
Thanks. I hadn't considered the relationship.
A good cover for the fragrance is a menthol-camphor type of liniment. It can also be offensive, but I figure it is probably a better "stink". :-) And it fits with an athletic setting.
I learned I had Dupuy... nodules from a hand surgeon in passing, too soon to worry. Later, after taking DMXO orally for several months, I noticed they had retreated significantly. I stopped the DMSO before realizing this, and haven't re-started, but the nodules remain tiny and not affecting anything.
Typo...DMSO, not DMXO
I have been using DMSO on my nodules also along with iodine for about 5 years. The nodules haven't progressed to tight tendons in that time. I use castor oil on my face so my hands also are exposed to that daily. I am going to start using a mineral based silica supplement to see if that helps to soften the existing nodes. The nodes don't restrict my fingers at all yet and I'd like to keep it that way. (I do regular massage and stretching) My mother had surgery and it didn't really help. My 6 siblings all also have DC.
I don't know what a nodule looks like. I didn't notice that my left hand had fully developed cords until my middle-aged years. The first two fingers have "palmbones," a friend and I called them before I learned the proper name. The 4th finger has one that bifurcates from the middle of the palm toward the little finger. In an enforced suboptimal living situation, I see the index finger and little finger have developed small ones on the 3rd joint. The right hand, my dominant one, remains free of them. I have no contracture or mobility impairment, however, at 79. Why would it afflict only the hand less used? Not enough exercise? I'm a mostly one-hand typist.
That's interesting because my dominant hand is the only one with nodules.
Humans are flexion oriented creatures especially in the hand region. Flexor contractions are easily treated with advanced bodywork skills and repetition starting in the neck region, working downward, and bilateral spinal musculature. Most humans want the quick, surgical solution that the surgeon offers instead of the lifetime of doing some stretches, basic exercises and maybe having to pay an "alternative"(lol) manual practitioner to release the fascia(glue).
Medicine rarely pays for a "massage therapist" for treatment as massage is what wives get on cruise ships, right?
This falls in a similar camp to carpal tunnel, which also, is clearable with the right touch! Almost every time......
Mc
A friend, now deceased, was studying to become a stenographer, who have to be able to type and insane 150 wpm minimum. but the best could type 300 wpm with their specially constructed keyboard, where each key is a syllable, and some double key combinations can record common phrases. But carpal tunnel of her right hand restricted her sessions because of the pain. A fellow gardener, she observed my work and that I always took the stairs to my sixth floor apartment, usually several times a day, instead of the elevator unless my arms were weighted down with groceries. She taught me some gardening tips she'd gotten from her mother. I told her I could help with the carpal tunnel. I wanted to show her a book I had, perhaps Gabriel Cousens' "Conscious Eating," and invited her up to my room. She called for the elevator. I told her I wasn't going to wait, and went to the stairs, telling her I could beat the elevator. The elevator won, barely, but by the time she turned the corner and started walking the hall to my room, my breathless state was subsiding. Once she arrived, she said, "You're not even out of breath, Bob, how do you do that?" That's when she decided to take me seriously. I was a runner. She transitioned quickly under my guidance, he favorite breads, comfort foods, being the hardest foods for her to give up. She was maybe 5'8", big boned, but still seriously overweight at 185 pounds, but she wore it well. The extra weight didn't show. Fortunately, she had part-time job at the Dillards clothing store because the extra weight was coming off fast. Every month, she had to replace much of her wardrobe as the weight fell off. She began at 2x and lost a size every couple weeks. When she got down to size 8, she asked, "When is this going to stop, Bob?" She was no longer enjoying what she was experiencing, and it was getting expensive. She always went for Pendleton, quality over economy. I think she ended up at 4, maybe lower, but her carpel tunnel was gone, and so were 45 unnecessary pounds.
Her family had endured the WW II German bombing raids in London. Her father was a submarine captain disappearing for months to sink German boats. He sent his family enough money to leave for Canada to ride out the war. Her sister and mother remained in London, Ontario, but Jackie found work as an academic editor, and headed South, ending up in Toledo, Ohio, in retirement, where we met. Her lungs had lasting damage from the smoke of the German bombing raids. At age 16, the doctors didn't know what to do were her breathing difficulties after determining it wasn't TB, but they gave her a series of injections to her chest. I taught her to start aerobic exercise, where we got free, 6-week trial memberships at a local gym. When we started, she couldn't even chase after a bus for more than a block or so. While I was running laps, she was fast walking half a lap, slowing down or resting the other half, then trying again. She worked to jogging slowly.
Meanwhile, she told me she was allergic to oranges. They caused her whole chest area to break out in a rash. Apples she could handle. I told her to keep eating the oranges, as much as she could stand. She was detoxing something, and the citrus would get more tolerable in time. Meanwhile, I went to the internet to find out what drug could cause skin rashes. I discovered penicillin could do that. Aha! That made so much sense as what the cause was. She persisted, and the "allergy" to oranges disappeared.
Then one day, after actually running an entire mile with out stopping, she felt something give way inside her chest, maybe a protective biofilm of some sort, and she came to me excited. "Bob, for the first time since I was a little girl, I can now take deep breaths. It feels so good to be able to really breathe!"
Whenever I see health miracles like that, it always makes my day, my week, maybe a longer lasting high. I hope someone else can benefit from hat story.
dr. Lee Merritt healed herself as a result of using dmso. no surgery. she was using for a different purpose. mixing cd and dmso in the palm of her hand to apply it on a spot on her ear. and her dupuytren's disappered.
I "accidentally" cured pregnancy carpal tunnel by nebulizing DMSO (and hydrogen peroxide in saline) for a cough!
It's the "eating for two" pregnancy that causes excess weight gain, but I applaud the creative alternate solution. How strong was the H2O2? I've heard different suggestions. Dr. Mercola says only .01% is sufficient for covid. And the DMSO? I tried evaporating an essential oil once or twice, but I didn't like to see my walls and ceiling getting greasy, I don't know what others do about that.
I could fill a whole page on post partum depression, but my short answer is that when micronutrient status is barely sufficient for the mother during pregnancy, both her and the baby will suffer. Nature's wisdom says the older life is on the way out, so let's make her dump enough of what she has left into the new life in the hope that it will do better. The B family of vitamins are considered the "happy vitamin's." Women who avoid legumes and other foods rich in those vitamins can easily fall into that condition.
OK, here comes more. Apprenticing at a biodynamic farm one year, modeled after Rudolph Steiner's insights, I heard that during the winter break, the pregnant cow collapsed after dropping her foal. It lay in the cold day after day, while the farmers waited patiently while the conventional farmers next door were urging them to get her to market before she could become an unsellable corpse. Instead, the large animal vet was called in for a Dx. Testing her blood revealed a selenium deficiency, common in modern soils, especially in the Midwest. He gave her a large injection of vitamins/minerals, and the farmers waited. After 10 days of fasting, the cow finally stood up and began eating again.
Besides getting physically well, the farmers also noticed a personality change in that animal. She had always been very nervous and skittish around people, a genetic legacy of domestic cattle, no doubt. But from then on, she became warm and friendly eating out of their hands, enjoying getting petted. She knew what the humans could've done to her and did not.
Despite the cultish abuses of Scientologists, they under stand nutrition better than most MDs. Tom Cruise was right to call Brooke Shields out for going the drug route for her PPD.
It seems you may have been trying to "evaporate" herbal infused oils, not essential oils, if your walls were getting greasy!! Essential oils, unlike their name, are not oils at all, but volatile components of the plant. They do not leave oily residues unless they are mixed into oils.
What is cd?
What is cd? Do you mean the vitamins? A dear friend who died about 2 years ago had full-blown Dupuytren's. The fingers of both hands were curled into claws, but that didn't stop him from endless typing on his computer, cross-country skiing in his winter home on Northern Lake Tahoe, getting under his mobile home every spring and fall for maintenance, changing tires, to spend summers down South on Big River, CA, where he spent hours rowing his canoe over rapids, swinging kettlebells, and climbing trees, even when fasting! I wish he had known what this article contains, more exhaustive than either of us could uncover, and now your note that sees reversal without surgery, which he rightfully shied away from.
Speaking of ears, has anyone found a way to resurrect the dead hair cells that cause permanent hearing loss? Would butyrate help? I'd like to know. I suspect cellphone damage to be one culprit, and I've learned that all SSRI antidepressant dugs cause deafness and macular degeneration over decades of use. A HS friend of mine has already started experiencing both after maxxing out on Prozac I had once got her to wean away from it, supervised by a cooperative shrink. She had told me, "I don't need it anymore. I just take the smallest dose about every other day because the news is so depressing." "Then stop watching the news!" I told her, but she's addicted to the tell-a-vision.
I've only known three people that had that not a one of them ever drank or smoked or had diabetes. None are causal.
I have worked with a number of people with this condition. Teaching people to work on themselves with manual therapy (active release and massage like techniques) has been incredibly effective--meaning they have avoided surgery and cease to notice any discomfort and have normal hand function. Daily (frequent short applications throughout the day) work on themselves over several months. DMSO and Castor oil periodically applied to this regime is even faster. There are also a few subtle mobility exercises that lengthen and spiral through the hands and forearms -- essentially redirecting and allowing the body to correct the load pathways over time. It's a puzzle of load and force distribution that needs to be tapped into by the individual in which this is occurring. The impacted person has to learn to feel their way through it.
In the practice of homeopathy Dupuytren's contracture is not considered to be incurable.
Tell us more. My homeopath has no answers, but since my case is only cosmetic, I'm sure she hasn't given it much thought.
I was surprised that there was no mention of DMSO in this article, and no references to stuck fascia as a potential cause of the problem.
I have a friend with this issue who chose the surgical route. We met as teenagers in a junior bowling traveling league. We bowled together for more than a decade, when in our last tournament together we won a handicapped doubles tournament. It was his first 1st place finish and first paycheck in bowling (and his only handicapped win), and it was when I decided to move on to other interests (it was my only paycheck in bowling).
He went on to become a professional bowler, continuing on into his early sixties. In his case, I suspect the Dupuytren's was partly due to the bowling. But I suspect the cause may have been years of punishment to his fascia from motocross racing. Fascia often gets stuck as the result of trauma, though I don't know why that is. Racing and crashing go hand-in-hand. And a lot of the force of landing from jumps gets transmitted directly to the palm. It's easy to envision that the fascia of his palm was a hot mess from the years of abuse that his body endured.
My uninformed theory is that fascial problems develop most often at the endpoint of force transmission and/or the point of contact. So a trauma to the shoulders would cause the body to try to dissipate that force along a kinetic chain. Along the arm, the end of that chain would be the palm.
That doesn't explain the connection to Peyronie's disease. Unless that's just a similar force transmission that terminates at the penis.
It just shows how lifestyle can explain "genetic" connections. The problem is that a lot of different lifestyles can lead to the same fascial injuries...
Of course my friend buys the genetic lie, just like with the macular hole that he developed. "Because science." (End of conversation.)
Updated
A bit of fun:
Picture Lebowski on a motocross track. I can’t.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fIWtaK1QLQ
George Costanza & Tony the rock climber … & bowling :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muEoM-XXABY
“You missed your calling” sometimes misses some parts of callings that tied to the mast & ears-plugged Ulysses shows & tells more fully … sometimes.
Rear view mirrors. Back-up cameras. Driver/passenger surveillance cameras (& microphones).
“Controlling” of/for ostensible mapped territories —but not terrains— continues apace.
Understanding of/for, not so much.
No need to ask for whom the dinner bell tolls … “Life can only be ‘understood’ backwards, but it must be lived forwards.” ~ Kierkegaard
Puzzle:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wl_SoMNi0rw
Very interesting! I had my left hand cut from the ring finger to the base of the palm 20 years ago. Dupuytren’s never returned. Two years ago, the process began in my right hand with an ugly thickening at the base of the ring finger. I never had this thickening with the left hand. The tendon is now very taut in the palm area and the finger curving very noticeably. I am scheduled for a needle aponeurotomy in early 2027 and the surgeon said he won’t touch the actual lump. Apparently I can drive home afterwards.
I tried the DMSO but smelled like a rotting garlic clove so didn’t pursue that. I will try it again though. I would love to find someone to do a fascia release. I do not drink alcohol, have never smoked, and am generally in good health.
I am getting DMSO from dmsostore.com and it is very pure - not as stinky as some.
Thank you! I will investigate.
Thank you for the link.
Go raw?
I treated my Dupuytren's contracture 10 years ago with topical DMSO and Boron. Perhaps only the DMSO was needed: https://vitamindwiki.com/pages/dupuytrens-contracture-bent-finger-treated-by-boron-and-dmso-2016/ Several days of treatment. Has not recurred in a decade
I received generic Levaquin in the hospital for a severe abdominal infection that resulted in an emergency appendectomy about 10 years ago. It immediately triggered Dupuytren's contracture. I also sustained other neurological problems that eventually resolved themselves but the Dupuytrens stayed. A doctor I saw at UCLA for something else said there was no connection between the Levaquin and my condition but I remain unconvinced considering the symptoms appeared literally minutes after I was given the drug intravenously. 10 years later it has not worsened and my hand is fully functional except I can't place the palm of my hand flat on the ground with fingers spread. It makes it slightly more challenging to do yoga. Doctors are sometimes utterly clueless, imho.
I’m with you - a toxin in the drug caused it. 100%.
My mother, my 2 brothers, and myself have this problem. My mother just accepted it, my 2 brothers had surgery, with it returning. I opted for the radiation treatment, under Seeganschmiedt in Germany ( it was cheaper to fly to Germany for a week and stay in an apartment and pay €1,000 cost of 5 x radiation treatment than pay privately in UK). I have nodules only, slight constriction of thumb on one hand. Nodules on both hands and feet. I had this September 2020. The follow up procedure was scuppered due to Coronomania and no flights. I ended up paying much more for private treatment for the second round which had to happen within 6 months of starting treatment. It's 6 years since I started the treatment. My hands have not deteriorated further. Whether they would is an unknown. However, I'm satisfied that the treatment, totally painless, has done me no harm and may have benefitted me. We are of East Prussian decent, all smokers, who enjoy an occasional tipple!
It used to be associated with heavy drinking .
They must use really heavy mugs that are like 10 to 15 lb.
interesting opinion , no l was told that by a Hand Surgeon l used to work with in the OR Dept.
I think I said that because my dad had dupins and he always had a brick troll in his hand because he was a brick Mason for 50 years I just always assumed that's what caused it excessive use. Click on my name, click posts, read my book. You have to go all the way to the bottom and then read up.
Fair enough, besides heavy drinkers, Dupuytrens Contracture is also common in Northern Europeans Scandanavians, Ageing Smoker's , Diabetes and repeated Hand trauma like a Bricky experiences.
My husband has DD. After tons of research, we opted for the radiation treatment. That was in 2022 and it stopped the progression so far. DD also runs in my family. I noticed a painless hard bump growing on my ring finger knuckle. I started applying DMSO several times a day and within 2 months it’s now gone.
Thanks for this informative article. I too find DMSO and hand stretches very useful, I often wonder if splinting my hand overnight might benefit my slight finger curve. I have also noticed food allergies affect the curvature of my finger if I'm very careful and avoid all the the foods that cause allergic swelling of that area I'm able to straighten the finger without manual manipulation.
Could you write an article about EDS/hEDS PLEASE 🙏 I have been diagnosing it in my practice for many years in adults who NEVER had a diagnosis for their issues before!! It’s ridiculous how this major issue goes unrecognized constantly
Thank you for all you do- I post much of your work on my FB weekly❤️
I have a friend who came home one day and her husband was on the floor in a full blown seizure which would not stop. Under hospital treatment it was stopped and he was eventually allowed home. He had recently had a second surgery for Duyputren's. I wondered if lacking magnesium was a factor for both problems. They had been runners all their lives, no drinking or smoking. Travelled to many countries. So a few vaccine shots in the system.