Trackpad Stuck On Macbook Pro 13

Hello everyone, this morning I turned on my macbok pro, and I found my trackpad was stuck on the left and right hand side. I remembered clearly yesterday is was still fine. Now I have to use point to click and I now could not drag stuff. I thought that my battery had swollen, but the condition of the battery is still normal and have good health, the cover under had also not poped up. Can anyone help me out? Thanks!

Trackpads are tricky - if they've a hardware fault, as yours seems to, the best thing that you can do is to take the machine to your local Apple Store or an AASP and have them look at the trackpad and determine what is needed to fix it.
There's really nothing that you can personally do to fix your problem - unless you want to order the part from ifixit or PowerbookMedic and install it yourself (which is no guarantee to solve the problem).
Good luck,
Clinton

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