I wanted to share my experience with trigger finger and see if others have gone through something similar.
About 10 days before a Christmas party, I started noticing a small click in my middle finger in the mornings. Then, during chin-ups specifically for the Christmas event, where I was gripping only with my fingers, my middle finger suddenly snapped and made a cracking sound.
It’s been 10 days since that happened, and I just received a corticosteroid injection today.
Has anyone else experienced this? Did you manage to fully recover from trigger finger, and if so, how long did it take before you could comfortably return to gravel riding on rough terrain, sprinting, and other cycling activities?
It didn’t seem to come from any particular injury or too much of some novel activity. It just appeared out of nowhere really, basically overnight. Some days it was really quite painful and other days it was hardly noticeable. The movement aspect of it was similar, some days it was a slight pause and a click, and other days it was as if it was frozen and then would snap into place. Activity or rest didn’t make any difference to that as far as I could tell.
Doctor gave me some mobility exercises to do (I didn’t do them of course) and told me to go away until we reached 6 weeks post onset and see what happened.
Almost exactly 6 weeks post onset the pain and movement issue had totally gone and hasn’t returned for several years now.
Count me in. Multiple fingers left hand. Injected 2x left hand .
Injected 1 time right hand, just 1 finger. Taped that to the one next to it so it would behave.
I still have a pinkie that clicks. Took a few months to be totally gone in both hands. It’s a weird deal. 3 doctors could not tell me for sure what caused it.
Maybe not enough titanium parts on the bike.
Had/have a bit of a click in my left thumb and it seems to be entirely connected to phone use. The less I use my phone the less it happens. I haven’t really found anything to help other than staying away from fiddling with the phone screen. I suspect this is something that would affect pinky fingers too given the standard “pinky rest” position most people hold their phones in. Just a guess.
I’ve had it in my pinky finger for a couple of years now. I suspect the “pinky rest” position is causing it. My pinky clicks when I bend it. Some days worse than others. No pain, thankfully…. just discomfort.
ya me too, don’t really have pain exactly it’s just a really unnerving feeling. Once in a while it’ll be really big >CLICK< and that’s pretty jarring but mostly it’s just tiny little ones. But directly indexed to phone use for sure for me.
