“One morning, I woke up and my finger was stuck in a bent position,” says Risa Pulver, who’s lived with type 1 diabetes for 35 years. “I had to physically unbend it.” This was just a few years ago, ...

Diabetes can lead to several types of hand mobility issues. Some are unique to diabetes and some are not. But they all result in uncomfortable or painful hand stiffness and immobility, and they can ...

A condition that keeps people from straightening out their fingers has been connected to diabetes. “Trigger finger,” as it’s called, is when one or more fingers — often a thumb or ring finger — get ...

Trigger finger—also known as stenosing tenosynovitis—is a painful condition where fingers get stuck in a bent, trigger-ready position. It occurs when the sheath that encases the finger's tendon, or ...

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 ...