Trigger finger is a painful condition that makes your fingers or thumb catch or lock when you bend them. It can affect any finger or more than one finger at a time. You can also have it in both hands.

This week we are going to discuss the phenomenon of trigger fingers and trigger thumb, two very similar conditions which cause equally annoying results. For purposes of this article, we will ...

Trigger finger—also known as stenosing tenosynovitis—is a painful condition where fingers get stuck in a bent, trigger-ready position. It occurs when the sheath that encases the finger's ...

Nail biting and thumb sucking are common habits in children, which are often seen in their formative years. Though these ...

Trigger finger is the common name for a hand condition your doctor might call stenosing tenosynovitis. It happens when something inflames a band of tissue called a “pulley,” which holds the ...

Most children typically ditch their thumb-sucking habit between the ages of 2 and 4, with some quitting earlier, by 6 or 7 months old. But if they're still sucking at 5, the American Academy of ...

Who gets it? Dr. Wang: Actually, everybody gets it. When we see it in very young children it tends to be a slightly different condition. It's called a congenital trigger finger and that's a little ...