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Trigger Finger 26-Mar-2007 At 9:31:31 PM almontyrat

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My father, sister and I have all had trigger fingers sugically corrected with varying degrees of success. My sisters is fine (non climber), my fathers is still dodgy (also a non climber) and mine is great. I followed the hand OT's post op exercise routine religiously and was back climbing in a few months.

I did not have cortisone injections initially as I had another tendon problem in the same hand that needed surgery and the plastic surgeon thought he would fix both at once. Interestingly, the other problem, De Quervanes tendonitis, resulted from scaring left in my wrist after a cortisone injection some years before.

My advice would be: try the non invasive treatments first, if you can fix it without risking infections etc. all the better. I should have tried the deep tissue massage first as I have heard it is often sucessful. I would avoid cortisone personally after my bad experience. If all else fails, go the knife!