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Looking after your hands means more than just using a nice cream and sunscreen. With time problems can arise that we should watch for, and which we can and must deal with. by ELSA KRÜGER st yling HANNES KOEGELENBERG photos ED O RILEY
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put my arms into my jersey and my mom s hands came out the sleeves, wrote the late Dr Cecile Cilliers in one of her columns. That image stayed with me for years. The skin on our hands gives away our age, even more than our face does. There are various cosmetic procedures that can be done by an aesthetic doctor or a specialist to make
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your hands look younger, similar to the procedures that are used for facial rejuvenation. But what if your hands don t look old yet, but are starting to play oldpeople tricks? My moment of truth came when I realised I was making more typing errors, after more than five decades in front of a keyboard. I was also dropping things; the grip of my left hand in particular was not
what it should be. And as synchronicity would have it, I met Dr Pieter Jordaan when I went to say hello to Dr Chetan Patel at a restaurant in George. Dr Patel is a top plastic surgeon who practised in Johannesburg before he (also) pulled up his roots and semigrated to the Garden Route a couple of years ago. Dr Jordaan is an orthopaedic hand surgeon who in 2021 became
