Tip Protector — Roll Method
Designed to protect the distal aspect of the digit while allowing PIP motion. Common Diagnoses: phalanx fracture, nailbed injury, digit laceration.
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Tip Protector — Pinch Method
Designed to protect the distal aspect of the digit while allowing PIP motion. Common Diagnoses: phalanx fracture, nailbed injury, digit laceration.
Mallet Orthoses — Thermoplastic
Designed to properly position the DIP joint and allow PIP motion. Common Diagnoses: mallet finger injury (soft/bony), digit fracture, digit laceration.
Mallet Orthoses — Orficast
Circumferential serial cast design created to position the DIP joint and allow PIP motion. To remain on at all times, not for patient removal. Common Diagnoses: mallet finger injury (soft/bony), digit fracture.
Dorsal Block — Full Extension
Designed to hold the digit in extension and protect the digit during activity. Common Diagnoses: digit fracture, dislocation, contracture.
Dorsal Block — Progression
Static progressive design to position the PIP joint in slight flexion and protect the digit during activity. Common Diagnoses: PIP dorsal dislocation, volar plate injury.
Serial Casting — Central Slip
Circumferential design to position the PIP in full extension, with the DIP free for motion. To remain on at all times, not for patient removal. Common Diagnoses: central slip injury, digit fracture, contractures.
Relative Motion
Created to hold a singular digit in more MCP joint extension relative to the adjacent digits. Common Diagnoses: extensor tendon injury (zone 5), sagittal band injury, MP collateral ligament injury.
P3 Ulnar Gutter
Ulnar-sided design with digit(s) in safe position (intrinsic +). Created to immobilize entire digit(s). Common Diagnoses: P1/P2 fracture, metacarpal head fracture, laceration/soft tissue injury.
MP Support (Skier's Thumb)
Designed to stabilize and prevent thumb MP joint motion. Created with the thumb in functional position. Common Diagnoses: ulnar and radial collateral ligament injury.
Short Opponens
Hand-based design to immobilize the thumb and stabilize the CMC and MP joints. Created with the thumb in functional position. Common Diagnoses: CMC osteoarthritis, thumb fracture.
Wrist Cock-up
Volar forearm design to immobilize and position the wrist in neutral. Common Diagnoses: wrist fracture, tenosynovitis, carpal instability.
Delta-Cast Wrist Support
Circumferential, semi-rigid, casting design to immobilize and stabilize the wrist in neutral. Common Diagnoses: distal radius fracture, other carpal fractures, ulnar fracture.
P1 Block (Safe Position)
Forearm, ulnar-sided, P1 design with digit(s) in safe position (intrinsic +), with the wrist in neutral. Common Diagnoses: metacarpal fracture, proximal phalanx fracture.
Munster
Circumferential, semi-rigid, casting design to minimize rotation of the forearm and wrist while allowing elbow flexion and extension. Common Diagnoses: ECU injury, TFCC injury, DRUJ instability.
Long Arm
Posterior design to immobilize and position the elbow at 90 degrees with the forearm and wrist in neutral. Common Diagnoses: elbow collateral ligament injury, elbow fracture, tendon repair.
Pin Site — Tip Protector
Designed to cover and protect the distal digit pin site(s) and allow PIP motion. Common Diagnoses: phalanx fracture.
Pin Site — Metacarpal Fracture
Forearm, ulnar-sided P1 design to cover and protect the dorsal pin site(s). Common Diagnoses: metacarpal fracture, proximal phalanx fracture.
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