Trigger Finger Treatment

If the trigger finger doesn’t go away after a few weeks, you may want to consider treatment. There are a number of treatment options if your trigger finger does persist. These include painkillers, splinting, steroid injections and surgery.

Splinting and Pain Relief for Trigger Finger Treatment

A combination treatment of splinting and pain relief. Fitting a splint for you to put on your finger or thumb at night to keep it straight and prevent it moving. This aims to reduce the friction between the affected tendon and the tendon sheath, reducing your symptoms.

Anti-inflammatory drugs to reduce pain and swelling in your finger.

Steroid Injection for Trigger Finger Treatment

If splinting doesn’t help, steroid injection may be offered. Hand specialist will inject a steroid medicine into the inflamed area of your tendon sheath.

Surgery for Trigger Finger

Steroid injections don’t work for everyone. If there’s no improvement in your symptoms after having steroid injections, you may be offered a small operation to treat your trigger finger.