Trigger finger can limit finger movement and make it difficult to straighten and bend the affected finger. This condition ...

tendons will swell inside one of these pulleys and the tendon will have difficulty moving through the pulley. This makes it hard to extend or flex your finger. This condition is called trigger finger.

When this occurs in the finger joints, people also call it “trigger finger,” but it can affect any finger joint. Tendons are cord-like structures that attach muscles to bones. When a specific ...

Trigger finger and trigger thumb occurs when a nodule is present on the flexor tendon of the finger or thumb, and as such, the nodule is unable to clear the pulley of the finger or thumb and ...

Trigger finger is a painful condition which makes it difficult to bend the fingers and sometimes the thumb. Joints in the fingers and thumb move smoothly thanks to tendons – the connective ...

Trigger thumb (stenosing flexor tenosynovitis)—when trigger finger affects the thumb—is a common cause of thumb pain. It affects the flexor tendon that bends the thumb and can also affect any ...