can you snap a tendon
TENDON SNAPPING. WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW. Some tendons in the hand and wrist are held in place to make them run in the right direction especially where they pass over joints. Patients can tear the fibers that direct the tendons causing the tendons to slip out of place back and forth over the edge of a nearby joint. This produces snapping.
Patients report an annoying ache and pain and are disturbed by the snapping phenomenon that is an obvious sign that something is not right. The snapping or giving way of the tendon creates a sense of weakness or poor function of the body part. At the knuckles the finger may not lift all the way up. EXAMINATION. Placing the finger or wrist in certain positions will demonstrate the tendon instability and recreate the snapping.