Journal of Korean Foot and Ankle Society  2004;8(1):114-115

Trigger Toe in Soccer Player: A Case Report.

Kyung Tai LEE 1 ; Ki Won YOUNG ; J Young KIM ; Seung Keun HWANG

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Keywords

Trigger toe; Flexor hallucis longus tendinitis

Country

Republic of Korea

Language

Korean

Abstract

A 18-year-old male soccer player had painful triggering and occasional locking of the great toe caused by entrapment of the flexor hallucis longus tendon within the flexor sheath posterior to the right medial malleolus. After other treatment modalities failed, the condition was relieved by a surgical procedure that removed the nodule on the flexor hallucis longus tendon and the ganglion under flexor retinaculum. Tendon rupture was not found, although there was tendinitis.