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When I started to get the chords and a few nodules, I ran into a holistic dr in the UK, very common there as you state above, it is a Northern European disease predominantly; known also as the Vikings Disease.
I mix a small bowl of boron powder with DMSO cream and magnesium oil. Create a slurry and rub it on your hands or better yet, slather it on and wear surgical gloves for an hour or so.
The boron seems to have a beneficial effect, the magnesium oil is good for the pain and the DMSO cream aids in penetration to the internal areas affected.
Only 3 out of 10 will develop to the point of hand closure but you won't know if you are one until the contractures begin, by which time it is often too late. As Noah states, it is rare for DC to be painful but I have heard of quite a few cases where there is significant pain, I know mine twitch from time to time and it isn't pleasant.
I have no real evidence that my concoction is the reason things have not developed but they haven't in 6 years gotten any worse, other than I now have the Ledderhose which is DC for the feet. So I have an old pair of sneakers I use to wear when I apply the slurry to my feet.
Massage of the hand is thought to speed up DC but massage of the foot is held to slow Ledderhose, go figure. There is a Facebook DC group, mainly Euros but up on all the latest techniques. Funny how many people have this, I can always spot them, the actor Bill Nighy tries to hide it but you can see it from certain angles. And of course Ronald Reagan had surgery for it during his term of office.
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