The Viking Fist: A personal view of Dupuytren's contracture
In this blog I will share my experience of Dupuytren’s, including how it has affected my life, formal diagnosis and treatment, and some things I’ve learned through researching the condition. I’ve called it the Viking Fist as Dupuytren’s was often know as the Viking disease and Fist, because I’m fighting back!
Surgery on my right hand involved dermo-fasciectomies on both the little and ring fingers. Having had a dermo-fasciectomy on the little finger of my left hand already, I was pretty...
I had my second surgery last week, dermo-fasciectomy of the ring and little finger of my right hand. I’d like to thank the surgical team and the follow up nursing and physiotherapy...
Three months review Just over three months on from my first surgery and one day away from my next. The picture show how well my left hand is doing, the little finger is still a...
What I Didn’t Know I had thought that Dupuytrens was a condition found in older populations, had no idea if there was a difference between males and females, but had heard...
Thoughts on surgery Any surgery is not something to be undertaken lightly. Adding in a skin graft to a fasciectomy makes things more complicated and increases the risk of something...
Things that bug me about Dupuytren’s. Mostly it’s little things. Dupuytren’s isn’t painful, except perhaps during the early stages of nodule development. But it can be very...
Bandages and Splints A week after surgery I had two back-to-back appointments with a nurse, to change my dressings, and a physiotherapist to fit a splint. The parting shot from the...
My first meeting with the consultant began with a confirmation that I had fairly aggressive Dupuytren’s in both hands with evidence of Garrod’s pads too. Garrod’s pads are...
First of all, the Viking Fist is medically inaccurate. However, the condition is more prevalent in Northern European populations and was historically linked to the Vikings. More...