LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Keeping tabs on the weather with the help of a phone application or simply making a fist was almost impossible for 69-year-old Tom Gates until recently. The retired Air Force ...

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 ...

A finger that "locks" can be a telltale sign of another condition: Diabetes. Researchers suspected that this trigger finger, often in the ring finger or thumb, might indicate diabetes after frequently ...

Locked fingers, known as trigger finger, are more common among people with diabetes than in the general population. A study shows that the risk of being affected increases in the case of high blood ...

Using a firearm doesn’t make you tough, and it’s not glamorous. Frankly, we’re appalled by movies and TV shows (except for 24 with Kiefer Sutherland, who appears to have been trained very well by an ...

Peter H. Gott, M.D. Dear Dr. Gott: I get trigger finger. This is the third one I have gotten in the past two years. A cortisone shot does nothing, and surgery is the only thing that has helped me. The ...

Q. My physician has diagnosed the problem with my thumb as “trigger lock.” He says surgery will correct it. Can you explain this condition and what causes it? –D.E., Carrollton, Va. A. You probably ...

Locked fingers, known as trigger finger, are more common among people with diabetes than in the general population. A study led by Lund University in Sweden shows that the risk of being affected ...

High A1c levels are associated with the development of "trigger finger" in people with type 1 and type 2 diabetes, researchers find. Trigger finger, officially called stenosing flexor tenosynovitis, ...

TO KNOW IN MEDICINE, TRIGGER FINGER IS A TYPE OF TENDINITIS IN THE PALM THAT CAUSES A TRIGGERING OR CLICKING SENSATION THAT CAN BE VERY PAINFUL. MERCY MEDICAL CENTER DOCTOR CLAYTON ALEXANDER SAYS HE ...