Trigger finger and trigger thumb are sometimes called stenosing tenosynovitis. Tenosynovitis is inflammation of a tendon in ...

The tendon may become stuck on the sheath and cause a finger ... When this occurs in the finger joints, people also call it “trigger finger,” but it can affect any finger joint.

Structures called pulleys keep the tendon sheath in place along the finger bones. Trigger finger develops when the pulleys become inflamed. This makes it difficult for the tendon to slide through ...

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.

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 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 ...