Be Alert If Your Fingers Are Jammed And Lock While Working

If you cant move your fingers and they are jammed and locked than be alert because you may have trigger finger or stenosing tenosynovitis.

trigger finger

Sometimes when we work for longer period of time than our finger gets locked automatically and we can not move it and than automatically gets normal. If it happens continuously than it is called trigger finger.

In medical field it is known as stenosing tenosynovitis and it affects thumb, ring finger and middle finger.

Symptomps of stenosing tenosynovitis (Trigger finger)

Trigger finger occurs when we try to hold any object through 4 fingers. When we work with a tool for a longer period of time like working with scissors and screw driver and holding it for a longer priod of time. People who are suffering from diabetes and rheumatoid arthritis have higher probability of  having trigger finger.

Reasons of stenosing tenosynovitis (Trigger finger)

Trigger finger occurs becaue of pressure building on fingers due to working through our fingers for longer period of time. Sometimes it occurs as a side effect of other diseases like rheumatoid arthritis. American college of rheumatology made a  research on the people who are suffering from trigger finger had swelling in tandom web of their hands which later developed as trigger finger.

How to cure stenosing tenosynovitis (Trigger finger)

Hand stretching, ice and anti-inflammatory treatment can be very helpful to cure trigger finger. You can also use cortisone injection to cure trigger finger ring. If it doesn't give you relief then affected areas can be cured by surgery also. Sometimes only surgery is the ultimate solution of trigger finger.