[Noah930]

JB: Are you sure you have Dupuytren's? Dupuytren's is usually not painful. With Dupuytren's you'll get firm nodules under the skin in the palm. With time, they may start to form cords of connective tissue that extends into the fingers (again, all along the palm side). Only if the cords start to contract and flex the fingers (usually the ring, but can also be the small finger or sometimes middle finger--rarely the index finger or thumb) down into the palm do you intervene. But if you start to get flexion contractures, it's not something you can "fight." You can't straighten back out your fingers, short of some medical intervention. Again, Dupuytren's is rarely painful.

But if you're having pain, and you feel like the fingers are locking in a flexed position (but you can sometimes straighten them back out), then it sounds like you may have trigger finger. That's totally different. Then you're looking at cortisone/steroid injection or possibly definitive surgery (if you try and fail a cortisone injection). That's a lot easier and more satisfying to treat.