Dupuytren's Contracture Institute

Dupuytren's Contracture Alternative Treatment – Non-surgical and Non-medical

Dupuytren's contracture surgery does not appeal to most people; actually, any sane person does what is reasonable to avoid it. Surgery for Dupuytren's contracture becomes even more distasteful when it is learned that there are simple non-surgical options that might help avoid it. The idea that fibrous tissue contracture of the hand can be treated with Alternative Medicine (vitamins, minerals, enzymes, exercise, massage, and other disciplines) is of great interest and benefit to those who take the time to investigate these possibilities.

This website is presented by the Dupuytren's Contracture Institute (DCI). In it you can thoroughly explore the best of the available Alternative Medicine options that can be used to assist the body to attempt reduction and even elimination of the fibrous thickening of Dupuytren's contracture. The reader will find helpful information to create an aggressive and focused alternative treatment plan against this frustrating and limiting problem, using an abundance of exciting therapy choices with good science behind them.

DCI’s goal is to help you to your best level of recovery – whatever that might be. If you want to do as much as you can to avoid hand surgery – maybe even to restore some useful hand function – you have come to the right place.

While no one has an easy or sure cure for Dupuytren's contracture, DCI uses safe and well-researched alternative options that are supported by considerable scientific research.

Standard medical treatment currently favors a surgical approach when the condition becomes advanced. However, for many people, surgical measures are an extreme to be avoided if at all possible. That is what this website is all about: How to go about treating Dupuytren's contracture with conservative Alternative Medicine methods, so that surgery might be avoided.

Standard Medical Treatment
After reading about Dupuytren's contracture at a few of the various medical websites, it becomes obvious that this is not a high priority problem for the medical profession. Most websites discussing this subject are rather small, and repeat the same basic information over and over again. It soon becomes obvious that there is not much interest in treating this condition – other than the use of surgery.

The average MD follows a few simple guidelines to determine if surgery is needed: 1. How useful is the hand with Dupuytren's contracture; can the basic activities of daily living still be performed? 2. How bad is the pain; is the pain more than the patient can tolerate? If the answers to these two questions indicate that the problem is only mild or “acceptable”, meaning the hand is not useless, and the pain is not great, then surgery will not be done – and the patient is left untreated. When the problem is “not bad enough” my medical standards, the patient is left to learn to live with a hand that does not look right, does not feel right, and does not work right.

The standard way of handling an “acceptable” or mild Dupuytren's contracture is to have the patient reschedule for a visit once or twice a year, so the condition can be monitored to determine if and when the contracture is “ripe” for surgery.

DCI maintains that these people who are not surgical candidates – and those that want to avoid surgery – need to learn about safe alternative methods to treat this problem.

Dupuytren's Contracture Institute is Different
If you recently have been diagnosed with Dupuytren's contracture and you are not satisfied with the standard wait-and-see method of watching your hand “ripen” until it is ready for the surgeon, please read Dupuytren's Contracture and Russian Roulette Have Something in Common. It will give you a different perspective about the wisdom of gambling with the wait-and-see treatment approach. You will come to understand that while you are doing nothing but hoping that your hand will not later require surgery, you are also wasting valuable treatment time; safely working with Alternative Medicine to soften and reduce the contracture.

In this website we discuss Dupuytren's treatment options – lots of them – to increase your chance to recover with less contracture, less pain and less loss of hand function. The DCI goal is to keep a small problem small, and maybe even help the body to eliminate the fibrous thickening on the palm of the hand. This website presents interesting treatment options you might not know about, and brought them together for you, all in one location.

There are many people who have followed the complimentary and alternative medicine strategies for treating Dupuytren's contracture, and succeeded. You could be one of them. There is only one way to find out: try it and see what happens for you. You might be surprised.

Please explore this website, and determine for yourself if there are not some wonderful treatment options to use in your effort to get ahead of Dupuytren's contracture.

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