The 62-year-old, a five-time Olympic gold medallist, has shared his worries that his Dupuytren’s contracture (a condition also experienced by the beloved English actor Bill Nighy) and diabetes ...

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In the early stages of Dupuytren’s contracture, physical and occupational therapy may be helpful for maintaining range of motion of the fingers, and braces or splints may be used to stretch them.

Dupuytren’s contracture is a development of fibrotic tissue in the hand, namely the palm, which causes the fingers to draw up and fold such that the hand cannot be placed on the table flat.

In a detailed review, Skoog 2 mentioned as possible causes or concomitants of Dupuytren's contracture heredity, trauma, neuropathy, rheumatic diseases, endocrinopathy, epilepsy, developmental ...

For patients with moderate Dupuytren contracture, collagenase injection is not noninferior to limited fasciectomy, according to a study published online Oct. 9 in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Data on the recurrence of Dupuytren’s contracture were available for 186 patients in the collagenase group and 159 patients in the limited-fasciectomy group, of whom 32 (17.2%) and 22 (13.8% ...

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Dupuytren contracture is a progressive hand condition in which a collagen rope-like cord forms beneath the skin of the palm, pulling fingers inward toward the palm.1,2 It affects an estimated 17 ...