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what is tenosynovitis? sympoms?
inflammation of the fluid-filled sheath (called the synovium) that
surrounds a tendon.
Symptoms of tenosynovitis include pain, swelling, and difficulty moving the particular joint where the inflammation occurs. The tendons of the 2-4th fingers have separate
synovial sheaths, so an infection in any one of these sheathes does not spread, unlike the case of the 5th digit where infection can spread through the sheaths travelling through the palm, carpal tunnel and even into the anterior forearm. Likewise an infection or tenosynovitis in the thumb can spread via the continuous sheath of flexor pollicis longus
surrounds a tendon.
Symptoms of tenosynovitis include pain, swelling, and difficulty moving the particular joint where the inflammation occurs. The tendons of the 2-4th fingers have separate
synovial sheaths, so an infection in any one of these sheathes does not spread, unlike the case of the 5th digit where infection can spread through the sheaths travelling through the palm, carpal tunnel and even into the anterior forearm. Likewise an infection or tenosynovitis in the thumb can spread via the continuous sheath of flexor pollicis longus
