Talk:Trigger finger

What
What exactly causes this? Any "overuse", or overuse in certain positions? I have it in my left pinky, as I often bend it down to hit shift or control, but not in any other fingers. That suggests that it may be caused by bending down and pushing at a weird angle. --SPUI (T - C - RFC - Curpsbot problems ) 22:43, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

I am here to read more on this condition, I am in your same position SPUI. I get trigger finger in both pinkies, exacerbated by certain positions or lack if use (i.e. when I wake up). Orbframe 11:42, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

I know that this was merged just recently, but I cannot find any extant discussion of this move. Trigger finger is quite different from the other two entities in this article and should not be in the same place! InvictaHOG 22:50, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

I had a bout of TF in my right hand a number of years ago, middle finger. My sport of choice is fencing, and the grip I use tended to transmit a lot of repeated force from parrys and other blade-on-blade actions into the base of the finger. Over time, it irritated the tendon sheath to the point where when I bent the finger, it locked up in the bent position until I had to pull it straight....not a comfortable process. As I moved into selling the equipment, coaching more, and stopped competing, the continual irritation of the tendon stopped and eventually the locking stopped....although I occasionally get a relapse...not nearly as bad as before, however.

Nintendo thumb
Why does Nintendo thumb re-direct here? It's more associated with friction blisters than the cramping described here. Ace of Sevens 04:35, 18 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Someone had merged nintendo thumb and blackberry thumb here and I didn't know about the redirects. That's been fixed - InvictaHOG 13:09, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

Articles should not be merged. Tenosynovitis does not equal trigger finger. Disseminated gonoccaemia may manifest as tenosynovitis and this very differnt to "trigger finger". 07:53, 24 February 2007 User:124.189.57.92

The section on the band of its own name should not be included in the medical entry. Perhaps a new page if it's noteworthy (I know not) otherwise deletion?

Statins and trigger finger
Is there any evidence that taking statins can also cause this? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.173.159.165 (talk) 21:09, 27 July 2010 (UTC)

I had a look through the following (very informal list on ehealthme). Sadly, one cannot determine if a side effect or the underlying condition that the drug has been prescribed for has caused the symptom. Here a some of the top coincident drugs: Arimidex (estogen modifier), Fosamax, Levaquin (Tendinopathy may be associated with quinolone drugs), Vioxx (I guess people might take Vioxx for tendon problems), Synthroid to name some. I recently started to suffer from trigger thumb (both hands at different times).. I have high LDL, low HDL, and high triglycerides; years ago I have taken quinolone antibiotics. Maybe there are some more formal studies? 65.51.211.2 (talk) 18:03, 4 February 2013 (UTC)

Broken link
The link on the main page Overview page from a UK surgeon (http://www.pncl.co.uk/~belcher/trigger.htm) is not working today (21st April 2012). However http://www.pncl.co.uk/~belcher/information/Trigger%20finger.pdf does take you to a PDF document by the same surgeon. If other people agree, perhaps someone could edit the main page. Not being a doctor or similar, I don't feel confident to do it!

Posted by JohnLove_Edinburgh@CompuServe.com

92.236.96.150 (talk) 12:04, 21 April 2012 (UTC)

English or technical jargon?
What is meant in the article by "One recent study in the Journal of Hand Surgery suggests that the most cost-effective treatment is two trials of corticosteroid injection, followed by open release of the first annular pulley."? In plain English this would ordinarily be interpreted as performing all three steps. Does it also mean that in the technical jargon of medicine, or does it mean stopping when a step succeeds? Vaughan Pratt (talk) 01:16, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
 * It more likely means that corticosteroids should be tried on two separate attempts before moving to surgery Och29 (talk) 14:31, 10 March 2015 (UTC)
 * We should have somewhere a description of the pulley system. Jim.henderson (talk) 23:31, 5 September 2017 (UTC)