Broad Ulnar Gutter Splint

Fracture of the fourth or fifth metacarpal and injuries to the fourth and f.

Broad ulnar gutter splint.

Trick of the trade. These splints must be heated prior to molding. Date first available. Ulnar gutter wrist splint controls ulnar deviation.

Splinting the hand with a peripheral nerve injury is both easy and difficult. An ulnar gutter splint is a flexible splint that is used to support stabilize and immobilize injuries dislocations and fractures of the hands fingers or wrists to allow the bones and tissues to heal properly. The ease of splinting results from the readily recognizable and often identical deformities. It makes gripping things with your hand difficult.

An ulnar gutter splint can be used for various injuries and fractures in the hand and pinky and ring fingers as well as positioning and healing of rheumatoid arthritis or. This splint is the equivalent of the ulnar gutter splint except that is placed along the radial aspect of the wrist and sandwiches the 2nd and 3rd fingers. Protects wrist on volar and dorsal surfaces. Therefore unlike many other hand injuries the deformities resulting from isolated peripheral nerve paralysis are usually effectively splinted using standard splinting designs.

Use as a static base for outriggers etc. This splint however unnecessarily immobilizes the 4th and 5th fingers.