Second surgery outcomes

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…

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Pants, socks and gowns

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…

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Three months review

Three months reviewJust 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…

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First surgery

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…

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Dupuytren’s Bugbears

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 frustrating. Here’s my…

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The Viking Fist: an introduction

  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 recently, genetic…

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