For people with the hand deformity Dupuytren's contracture (pronounced du-pwe-TRANZ), these seemingly simple tasks pose much bigger challenges. Dupuytren's contracture is a condition that causes ...

Treatment for Dupuytren's contracture depends on the severity of your condition. Over the course of Dupuytren's disease, fibrous tissue in the palm thickens and tightens. This causes one or more ...

With Dupuytren’s contracture, knots form underneath the skin of your fingers and palms. You may treat this condition with needling, surgery, enzyme injections, or certain at-home treatments.

Injection of collagenase clostridium histolyticum, an office-based, nonsurgical option, may reduce joint contractures caused by Dupuytren's disease. We enrolled 308 patients with joint ...

Dupuytren’s contracture is when thick, fibrous tissue grows in the palm of the hand. It can cause the fingers to curl in toward the middle of the hand. Hand exercises can help keep the fingers ...

ADDUCTION contracture of the thumb presents a most serious disability of the hand. The thumb is useless as an opponent for the fingers, is unable to abduct and rotate and, in some cases ...

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.

Contracture, or reduced joint mobility, is a common and disabling sequel of spinal cord injury. The primary intervention for the treatment and prevention of contracture is regular stretch to soft ...

Endo logo (PRNewsfoto/Endo, Inc.) 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.

IVRO is an older technique that requires intermaxillary fixation to achieve bone fixation, i.e., locking the upper and lower jaws with wire, for six weeks. During this period, the patient can only ...