Oh, sure -- I know every injury is different, was just curious because I want to see if there's any overlap where I could ask my doctor more pointed questions, because I really don't think the A1 is the sole cause of my issues. Looking at the pictures I think I have an A4 problem as well.

With your A4 strain -- did you ever have pain when holding objects in certain ways? For example, if I use that hand to hold a plate of food, you know how the direction of force goes straight down through that middle finger under the plate? I have a lot of pain in that area of my finger when doing things like that. Pain also when tearing packaging / cardboard. Did you have anything like this?