Our sweet patient, Cindy Barrowman, suffered from a life-limiting overuse injury of the hands due to a very active lifestyle growing up. Cindy lived with horrible hand pain for the past 20 years. Her hands were constantly in pain and swollen. Any grasping movement was the worst – picking up a glass, driving, using a key to unlock a door…all of these straightforward daily activities became Cindy’s biggest challenge. The pain kept her up a night. To help sleep, she wore hand braces to bed. During the day, she wore braces for support.

After going to several hand specialists over the years, they all wanted to perform an excruciating and invasive surgery: Thumb Trapeziectomy with Ligament Reconstruction and Tendon Interposition. The surgery is followed by months of painful recovery. Cindy did her research and was not comfortable with the results from others who had this done. Her aunt was one of them, and her hands were worse off after the surgery. While researching this procedure, she learned about Regenerative Medicine Therapy therapy and discussed it with three different hand specialists only to be told by all of them that this would not help her and that surgery was her only option.

Cindy did not want the surgery and settled for steroid injections into the hands, which worked well at first, but this was just a temporary treatment, and Cindy needed a long term solution. After a friend referred Cindy to Dr. Nash, she decided to go in for an evaluation to see what he suggested…