ORLANDO -- Patients with the hand ailment stenosing tenosynovitis -- "trigger finger" -- who need more than one corticosteroid injection within 6 months are likely to need early surgery and to develop ...
image: Researchers have made a 3D-printed anatomical finger model, embedded in ballistic gelatin, as a low-cost ultrasound training phantom for procedural guidance of trigger finger injections. Though ...
Treatment of an injured or diseased joint may require precise insertion of a syringe needle -- musculoskeletal sonography can help guide clinicians as they drain fluid from arthritic knees or inject ...
Trigger finger is a condition caused by inflammation of the flexor tendon of the fingers. Flexor tendons bend the finger as if you were squeezing a trigger. We think of our index finger as our ...