Trigger Finger Contractures Musculoskeletal Disorders Conditions and Diseases

Trigger finger or trigger thumb is a type of stenosing tenosynovitis in which the sheath around a tendon in a thumb or finger becomes swollen and restricts the tendon's movement. Affected joints may become painful to straighten once bent, and may make a soft crackling sound when moved.

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• MedicineNet - Trigger Finger (Stenosing Tenosynovitis) - Explains this condition including symptoms, causes, medications, and treatment.
• Trigger Finger / Tenosynovitis - From Wheeless\\' Textbook of Orthopaedics. Provides clinical manifestations, treatment, operative trigger finger considerations, and surgical photographs.
• Mayo Clinic: Trigger Finger - Learn the symptoms, causes, risk factors, and when to seek trigger finger medical advice.
• Dr. Nelson's Trigger Finger Page - Illustrations of the palm and pulley system. Includes contractures a diagram contractures of the surgical procedure.
• eMedicine - Trigger Finger - Physician article provides an introduction, indications, anatomy, contraindications, treatment, complications, and prognosis.
• Stenosing Tenosynovitis - Description of this condition including diagnosis and treatment. Also discusses deQuervain's disease that involves the thumb.
• Trigger Finger (Flexor Tendinitis) - Animated views of what occurs with this condition from Hand World.

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