Comparison of "Custom-Made" Stack's Splint and "Home-Made" Dorsal Tile Splint: Clinical Case Reports

Surgical excision and contoured custom made splint to treat helical keloid

Helical keloids are difficult to treat as surgical excision requires effective compression of the operative scar to prevent recurrence while retaining the contour and elasticity of the helix. The authors fabricated a conforming custom made post-operative splint from a commonly used dental material. Splints could be fabricated in both pre-operative and post-operative stage.

A low-profile dorsal dynamic splint.

James Sellers, OTR, i.s Director ol O ccupational T herapy, Braintree Hospital, Braintree, Massachusetts. flexion is actively present. The elastic should support the MCP joints at 20 degrees of flexion, but allow full, active rangJe of motion in flexion. Thus the patient will be able to pick up and release objects during the performance of functional tasks. Made of Orthoplast@ (Johnson & Johnso...

A Readily Made Splint for Compound Fractures of the Femur and the Bones of the Leg

the wound may be the strapping is omitted so as to allow ready access to it. An ordinary extension stirrup is applied to the leg and the foot-piece of the stirrup is fastened to a weight by means of a string passing over an ordinary reel acting as a pulley fixed in the vertical foot-piece of the splint. The thigh rests in the padded notch of the buttock-piece and the ischial tuberosity is broug...

Custom Made Mold Brachytherapy

Opposition splint for partial thumb amputation: a case study measuring disability before and after splint use.

STUDY DESIGN Case report. INTRODUCTION A combined burn and a partial amputation can be extremely debilitating as the thumb constitutes 40% of the entire hand when evaluating functional impairment. PURPOSE OF THE STUDY Measure disability with and without opposition splint use after partial thumb amputation due to a burn. METHODS Impairment and disability measures were completed at discharg...