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Re: Advice on finger stretch

Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2020-03-30 04:30

To Ralph Katz and albertarose, I'm curious about your trigger finger problems. I've had trigger thumbs - each of them at different times. I was well into my 60s when my right thumb started catching. The orthopedist I went to started cortisone injections on each of them when he first diagnosed them. I think three shots (about 3 weeks apart) cleared the triggering completely on each thumb. I haven't had a relapse on either hand. He didn't even mention stretches as therapy (he recommended going straight to surgery to open the tendon sheaths if the shots didn't work).

Do you find the stretches beneficial? Have your docs ruled out steroid shots?

Karl

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