Trigger Finger Tends To Be A Part Of Ulnar Tunnel Syndrome

Ulnar nerve is a major peripheral nerve of the upper limb that gives us feeling in our little finger and half of the ring finger. This nerve basically controls the muscles of the hand that facilitates you to pick things up and do various other movements. It also controls other bigger muscles of the forearm that allow us to hold or grip things. Using our hands or wrist repetitively may cause swelling or thickening of the tissues situated closer to the ulnar nerve. It can further affect the ulnar nerve making us suffer from Ulnar Tunnel Syndrome.

This Syndrome is mainly caused when the ulnar nerve at the wrist is compressed. Activities like bicycle ride may develop this syndrome because of the holding on to the handlebars. Increased pressure on this nerve may lead to numbness, tingling, pain and weakness of the affected arm and hand. The pain in hand may further lead to trigger finger. It is a medical condition in which you suffer from reduced mobility in the fingers. It often results in the stiffness, locking and chronic pain in our fingers.

Pain in your thumb or any other finger may be a part of Ulnar Tunnel Syndrome; however, it can also be the result because of the trigger points in your muscles. The trigger points in our muscles are hyper-irritable sending pain to other parts of our body. If you experience chronic pain in your thumb then it might result in trigger thumb. In this situation, the trigger point that causes the pain is in the lower arm.

You may treat mild pains just by resting and anti-inflammatory medication. There are injections called hydrocortisone and lignocaine, that are recommended to treat trigger fingers when the condition is chronic. However, these injections are tend to be not so useful for the patients who have other medical conditions such as diabetes etc.