If it were my trigger finger, I would insist on a (1) hand surgeon or (2) a
plastic surgeon or orthopedist with hand training.

Ed

Surgery of the hand is a subspecialty area available to orthopedists and
general surgeons. Usually, general surgeons don't do a lot of hand surgery
anymore these days and the typical hand surgeon is either an orthopedist
with specialty training, or a plastic surgeon. Note that not all plastic
surgeons do hand surgery, even though it's a big part of their subspecialty
training (many focus on cosmetic surgery only). Trigger finger is a common,
well-defined problem and you are likely to be in good hands with any
orthopedist or plastic surgeon that state that they specialize in surgery of
the hand. Many general orthopedists are also quite competent to release a
trigger finger as well - such surgery is almost always part of their
residency training.

You would likely be fine by looking through the yellow pages for a surgeon
that declares him/herself as doing surgery of the hand, or you may get that
same info by calling your local medical society and getting a list from
them.

HMc