Dupuytrens Contracture Alternative Treatment

Dupuytrens contracture treatment using Alternative Medicine methods is controversial, to say the least. This section will present alternative and complimentary therapy methods, while admitting that there is controversy in regard to them all. For a tongue-in-cheek comparison of the standard medical treatment of Dupuytrens contracture in its early stages to the aggressive treatment theory of DCI, click Dupuytren’s Contracture and the Man Whose House is on Fire. As you read this essay you will come to understand the philosophy and theory behind DCI's recommendation to treat both the acute and chronic stages of Dupuytrens contracture with aggressive multiple conservative measures.

Dupuytrens contracture Treatment Unlike Any Other on the Internet:
DCI recommends the active, aggressive, synergistic use of multiple conservative Dupuytrens contracture treatment measures in both its acute and chronic stages. The purpose of this intense therapeutic approach is to increase, to support, to enhance, the maximum healing potential of the body in general and the fibrous connective tissue of the palm in particular. Nutritionally supporting the healthy function of local tissue in both specific and general ways makes sense, so the body is given the best possible opportunity to repair and regenerate – to the best of its ability. Applying common sense and generally available knowledge about health and healing improves your chance to come out as a winner.

"Proof" of Therapy
In modern society, drugs and medical technology with the greatest profit potential are researched most and are pushed hardest in the marketplace. Even though a particular treatment might help people, unless there is strong economic motivation to find “proof” that it works, few drug companies are motivated to invest in it. A low profit therapy (vitamin, enzyme, homeopathy) is generally ignored by the medical establishment for reason of simple economics. Often, these simple remedies are labeled “unproven” not necessarily because they do not work, but simply because no one wants to spend the time, effort and money to scientifically prove their effectiveness. A good low-profit treatment can stay untested, ignored actually, and therefore remain “unproven”. It does not mean it is a poor therapy, sometimes only that it is an ignored therapy.

Even when a certain therapy has “proven” value and effectiveness, this positive or favorable verdict is sometimes only temporary. You must wonder about the actual value of scientific proof and approval for a drug or procedure, when so often they are later found to be ineffective and/or dangerous. (The reader has only to consider the recent removal of Vioxx and Celebrex from the marketplace, after being prescribed millions of times before being withdrawn.) Many times a new procedure or medication is put in the market with great ballyhoo one year, and pulled off the market with lawsuits the next year. So much for the unshakable and solid value of scientific research, extensive testing, medical acceptance and "proof".

When the medical establishment and FDA attempted to improve the American diet (fat out, protein in) to reduce obesity and heart disease, they pressured the fast food industry for compliance. In response, the fast food industry simply stated, “There is insufficient scientific proof to link a low fat/high protein diet to reduction of obesity and heart disease.” They did not say that less fat and more protein did not result in weight loss and less heart disease, they simply said that it had not been scientifically "proven". Most agree it is logical for a low fat/high protein to be beneficial to health, yet it was "not adequately proven" and for this reason the request could be safely ignored. Only after the American consumer demanded less fatty food and fewer empty calories, and created a financial incentive to decrease fat and increase protein, did the fast food industry respond by offering an improved menu for the public.

With all of this in mind, “proof” that a therapy works should be put in perspective.

Not Mainstream Theory
DCI theories for aggressive and multiple Dupuytrens contracture treatment are not yet proven, and are not within standard or accepted medical practice. We feel the ideas we submit here for your consideration represent such an early awareness and improvement on current medical treatment of this common hand problem.

Traditional medicine, with no drug Dupuytrens contracture treatment, offers surgery as the only cure. DCI is not against surgery in cases that have been non-responsive to prolonged aggressive use of multiple conservative care. However, too many people rush into surgery believing that is an easy and sure solution to a big problem. Each surgical candidate should remember these three things:
1. Surgery will not restore the hand to its original condition. Surgery cannot do that.
2. After surgery hardened scar tissue reduces hand use.
3. After surgery complications (greater pain than before surgery, greater loss of hand/finger mobility and dexterity, hand coldness) occurs in 20% of cases.
4. After surgery there is less normal tissue in the hand; good, unaffected, non-puckered skin is used to close wounds and reconnect areas results in less of everything – movement, strength and flexibility..
5.. It is a fact of life that Dupuytrens contracture will likely recur again at the same site as a prior surgery, or in tissue adjacent to prior surgery. This fact leaves many to wonder why bother having the surgery if the problem will recur and additional surgery will be needed. The thinking is that it is better to have just a bad case of Dupuytrens contracture, than a bad case of Dupuytrens contracture PLUS old surgical scar and lost normal soft tissue.

Yet, there are many non-drug options from a large body of medical research that documents positive, but inconclusive and sometimes variable, reports of success. Changes made in the body by alternative and complimentary therapies tend to be subtle and slow, since their purpose is only to support or encourage a normal process of nature that is reduced or absent. Changes made in the body by drugs or surgery are aggressive, since their purpose is to force or create a change based on the intent of the physician. Our treatment theory is that the potential benefits of these subtle natural therapies are enhanced and multiplied by simply using several alternative therapies at the same time – known to science as synergy. It is easy to understand – at lest for most laypeople – that a single natural therapy will not work as well as aggressive multiple therapies; like “ganging up" on the problem. One child cannot lift a grown man; five or six children can do it with ease.

It is DCI‘s opinion that it is safe and reasonable to attempt to improve the eventual outcome of Dupuytrens contracture by faithfully and aggressively using several conservative treatments that are based on sound science and common sense. We strongly suggest that the person with Dupuytrens contracture works with what is known and what is available – even if it is not perfect – rather than passively behaving like a victim.

Creating a DCI Dupuytrens Contracture Treatment Plan
Here are the mechanics of how DCI suggests you go about planning your own treatment program with your medical doctor.

1. Learn. Read through the description of each therapy we offer in this section.
2. Create a list. Make notes about those therapies that address particular issues that apply to you personally. See if you can recognize yourself in some of these discussions; they could be good additions to your program. As an example, if you have digestive complaints you might consider use of systemic enzymes.
3. Diversify. Attempt to get one or two treatments from different therapeutic areas. One or two from the antioxidant group, one or two therapies from the enzyme group, one or two therapies from the physical group, one or two therapies from the energy group. If you do this, you are then spreading out your therapies to a broad base of support for your body.
4. Use basics. There are some treatments that are very broad base and have wide application to most everyone who has Dupuytrens contracture. As an example, vitamins E and C, and the massage and exercise program are usually thought of as good for most everyone with this problem.
5. Verify. Read though the list you are putting together and see if it makes sense to you. Discuss your ideas with your personal doctor; keep him/her informed to assure you are on the right track. Make a firm commitment to doing all of the things you set out to do, and then just do it.

It Comes Down to This
Our opinion for treatment of Dupuytrens contracture is to do all that you can, as soon as you can, using as many of the safe and scientifically grounded options that are known to have some success in helping the fibrous contracture to heal. If after following an aggressive and scientifically based alternative medical program there is less than complete repair and healing, as can happen, then surgery can still be used. For further discussion, click on Heads You Win, Tails You Don’t Lose.

How to Explain This to Your Medical Doctor
Keep this in mind when speaking to your doctor:

1. Doctors generally want to do what they are convinced is best for their patients, but they are slow to change their thinking and often need to be educated about anything new and different.
2. Doctors are busy and do not like to waste time.
3. Doctors will not participate in anything they do not understand or do not agree with.
4. Doctors will not participate in anything that can give them problems later.

Here Are Some Suggestions How to Talk to Your Doctor:

1. Get to the point and keep it there. Don’t waste his/her time, and he/she will probably give you more of it.
2. Have a print-out ready from the treatment area of this website that explains what it is you want to do. Give it to your doctor to look over.
3. Say something like this, “I want to do more to help myself. I have read some things about alternative and complimentary treatment of Dupuytrens contracture that are used by medical doctors from all over the world. I know there is a lot of controversy about treatment, so I want to know what you think. I know that there is no perfect agreement about the results of using some of these things, but I would like to try it anyway. These treatments are not perfect, but then no treatment has been found perfect. Other doctors think these therapies show statistical promise, as you can see. What do you think?”
4. Listen carefully to what your doctor says about your ideas. If your doctor has a reasonable and open mind, as you would hope, you will not be brushed aside. If you are brushed aside, ignored, or treated badly, you will have to determine how to respond. Weigh very carefully what is told to you by your doctor, and then make up your mind how you wish to proceed.

Use these suggestions as a guide to create your Dupuytrens treatment plan:

1. Read and learn about the various therapies. Understand why each is important.

2. Be aggressive. Overwhelm the problem, support your health in a broad area.

3. Diversify. Use both internal and some external therapies. From the internal options, consider some nutritional and some enzyme therapies. Mix it up.

4. Consider what you know about yourself. Select options based on you personally.

5. Discuss your ideas with your doctor.

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Best wishes for your success and return to good health. This is a stubborn problem that requires commitment to overcome. Be persistent and stay focused.

Please now go to the discussion of individual Dupuytrens contracture treatment.

The normal and full use of your hand or hands can be taken from you through Dupuytrens contracture progression. Do all that you can, as early as you can, to allow your body the best opportunity to reverse this problem. For ideas and suggestions to organize an effective Alternative Medicine treatment plan, click Create Dupuytrens Treatment Plan.