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Trigger Finger Disorder

Known as: finger triggered, finger trigger, fingers trigger 
A painful disability in the hand affecting the finger or thumb. It is caused by mechanical impingement of the digital flexor tendons as they pass… 
National Institutes of Health

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Finger InjuriesIn BloodMicrobiologicalTenosynovitis

Broader (2)

Musculoskeletal DiseasesSynovitis and tenosynovitis

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Recurrent trigger thumbTrigger ThumbTriggering of digit

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2006
2006
A technique for accurate and safe injection of steroid in trigger digits using ultrasound guidance.
Steroid injections have long been the main stay of conservative treatment of trigger digits. This procedure gives variable… 
2006
2006
Effects of changing wrist positions on finger flexor hypertonia in stroke survivors
We sought to establish whether spastic hypertonia results from changes in intrinsic muscle properties or from altered stretch… 
Review
2003
Review
2003
Surgery for trigger finger.
One of the two English-language reports on the results of surgery for trigger finger reported frequent complications and poor… 
Highly Cited
1999
Highly Cited
1999
Population Structure and Cryptic Evolutionary Units in the Alligator Snapping Turtle
The alligator snapping turtle ( Macroclemys temminckii) is a long‐lived, slow‐growing chelydrid turtle found in Gulf of Mexico… 
Highly Cited
1998
Highly Cited
1998
In vivo tendon forces correlate with activity level and remain bounded: evidence in a rabbit flexor tendon model.
1997
1997
Corticosteroid responsive tenosynovitis is a common pathway for limited joint mobility in the diabetic hand.
OBJECTIVE To test the hypothesis that diabetic tenosynovitis participates in the contractures of the syndrome of limited joint… 
1994
1994
Chemical and visual control of feeding and escape behaviors in the channel catfish Ictalurus punctatus
1993
1993
Prevalence of myofascial pain syndrome in fibromyalgia syndrome and regional pain syndrome: A comparative study
Objectives: The trigger points [TrPs] of the myofascial pain syndromes [MPS] and the tender points [TePs] of fibromyalgia… 
Highly Cited
1988
Highly Cited
1988
Inhibition of neurones transmitting non‐monosynaptic Ia excitation to human wrist flexor motoneurones.
1. The possibility was investigated that the transmission of the interneuronally mediated Ia excitation to wrist flexor… 
1987
1987
Opioids and hibernation. II. Effects of kappa opioid U69593 on induction of hibernation in summer-active ground squirrels by "hibernation induction trigger" (HIT).
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