Hand Therapy for Dupuytren’s Contracture

Davis, Patricia L.; Eaton, Charles

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-22697-7_39

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“…Patients may need to be reminded of this. Night splinting is generally continued for 4 to 6 months 22 .…”

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Dupuytren's Contracture: A Case Review

Hricz

2023

JBJS Journal of Orthopaedics for Physician Assistants

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Dupuytren contracture is a contraction disorder of the hand related to an abnormal myofibroplastic process. An autoimmune response may trigger fibroblasts to proliferate along lines of tension within bands of the palmar fascia and other tissues within the hand resulting in fibrous cords and nodules of the hand. Risk factors include Scandinavian or Northern European descent, trauma, chronic use of vibrating tools, medical disorders such as diabetes, HIV, epilepsy, and vascular disease as well as a social history of smoking or alcoholism. The disorder is relatively painless, and patients tend to delay seeking care until the contracture has progressed to the point of causing some degree of disability or impacting their daily lives. Treatment options include surgical fasciectomy, collagenase injections, or needle fasciotomy followed by occupational therapy interventions such as splinting and stretching. Intervention is generally effective in improving symptoms and functionality; however, recurrence is still possible.

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“…Patients may need to be reminded of this. Night splinting is generally continued for 4 to 6 months 22 .…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Dupuytren's Contracture: A Case Review

Hricz

2023

JBJS Journal of Orthopaedics for Physician Assistants

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Reichert

Wach²

2022

Morbus Dupuytren

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Dupuytren Contracture - How Fibromatosis Remodels the Palmar Subcutaneous Tissue and Its Fibrous Environment

Meinel¹

2013

ASS

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Our understanding of the process of contracture of the fingers is based on extrinsic and intrinsic theories. Yet there has always been an inherent contradiction in these concepts. Additionally, nearly all of these theories proceed from the assumption of a contractio digitorum and this assumption is reflected in basic research as well. The author presents a concept, which describes the finger contracture more accurately as retention in the flexed position. This contraction-free concept, deduced from the function and structure of the palmar subcutaneous tissue, combines the different pathogenic aspects. Palmar fibromatosis primarily manifests itself in the palmar subcutaneous tissue. The function of this tissue was studied in the living hand; the anatomic structure of the subcutaneous fibrofatty tissue was studied for the first time in slice plastinates of adult hands. The palmar tissue exhibits varying tissue consistencies. It is compressed and expanded as the fingers move. In fibromatosis, fibrous nodules infiltrate the finger tissue in its shortened flexion configuration, which predominates both by day and by night. In the normal hand, the anchoring fibers allow nearly tension-free deformation of the skin tissue. In fibromatosis, this tissue loses its extensibility. Motion in the finger subjects the new formed tissue to tensile stress. This in turn provides the decisive stimulus for adaptive tissue transformation. This process does not require any active contraction. It plausibly explains the finger contracture as an extension block. In the contraction-free concept, the myofibroblast is understood to be a form of fibroblast that resists the tension arising in the tissue by isometric contraction. The contraction-free concept can explain all clinical pictures of fibromatosis as reactive remodeling of the specific local host tissue. It can also provide basic research with a conclusive anatomic pattern. Moreover, it implies a specific therapeutic paradigm: Treatment options that influence the formation of pathologic tissue and address the characteristic tensile stress will be able to control the root causes of the deformity.

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Hand Therapy for Dupuytren’s Contracture

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References 62 publications

Dupuytren's Contracture: A Case Review

Dupuytren's Contracture: A Case Review

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Dupuytren Contracture - How Fibromatosis Remodels the Palmar Subcutaneous Tissue and Its Fibrous Environment

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