Trigger fingers and trigger thumb are prevalent hand injury diagnoses here at Premier Physical Therapy, and they can be quite painful. What is Trigger Finger? Each of your fingers in your hand is like a separate fishing pole. The muscles are like the fishing pole reel that move the tendons in the fingers. The tendons … Read More

One hand contains 28 bones. This means that 56 of your body’s 206 bones are located just in your hands. The number one diagnosis that Hand Therapists treat is Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. Carpal Tunnel Syndrome is the result of increased pressure on the median nerve at the wrist. This increased pressure can be caused by … Read More

Carpal Tunnel:  Symptoms are pain, numbness, and tingling in your thumb, index, long, and sometimes ring finger. Cause of these Symptoms:  The median nerve travels through the wrist with nine tendons that control the fingers and thumb. These tendons & nerves run in a tunnel and, with life tasks, sometimes become compressed or stressed. The … Read More

Halloween season can be fun and ghostly, but nothing is scarier than a hand injury, says Donna Hart Goodson, OTR/L, CHT.  “Every year, I expect to see at least one hand injury that could have been prevented if extra safety measures had been taken when carving a pumpkin,” says Donna.  Most injuries I’ve seen are … Read More

What is Trigger Finger or Trigger Thumb? Trigger finger is an inflammatory condition that is most common in the ring finger but can affect any of the fingers. Triggering of a finger occurs because the tendon that helps move the finger up and down becomes inflamed and no longer moves smoothly through the pulley that … Read More