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    Splinting Guide Hand & Wrist

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    The document outlines different types of fractures and injuries to bones in the hand and wrist and describes common splinting techniques used to immobilize and treat each, including sugar tong, thumb spica, ulnar gutter, radial gutter, and finger splints.

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    Splinting Guide Hand & Wrist

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    The document outlines different types of fractures and injuries to bones in the hand and wrist and describes common splinting techniques used to immobilize and treat each, including sugar tong, thumb spica, ulnar gutter, radial gutter, and finger splints.

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    Diagram of bones of the hand with recommended splints to use for fractures

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    The document outlines different types of fractures and injuries to bones in the hand and wrist and describes common splinting techniques used to immobilize and treat each, including sugar tong, thumb spica, ulnar gutter, radial gutter, and finger splints.

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    Splinting Guide Hand & Wrist

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    The document outlines different types of fractures and injuries to bones in the hand and wrist and describes common splinting techniques used to immobilize and treat each, including sugar tong, thumb spica, ulnar gutter, radial gutter, and finger splints.

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    HAND & WRIST BONES

    DISTAL ULNAR: Sugar Tong


    Buckle Fx - Sugar Tong/Volar
    DISTAL RADIUS: Sugar Tong
    Buckle Fx - Sugar Tong/Volar

    SCAP
    HOID
    : Thum RADIAL STYLOID: Sugar Tong
    b Spic
    a

    CAPITATE: Thumb Spica


    LUNATE: Thumb Spica
    TRIQUETRUM: Volar
    TRAPEZIUM:Thumb Spica
    PISIFORM: Volar
    TRAPEZOID: Thumb Spica

    HAMATE: Volar
    THUMB METACARPAL:
    Thumb Spica

    THUMB PROXIMAL
    PHALANX: Thumb Spica

    METACARPAL 4TH & 5TH:


    Ulnar Gutter - 20 deg wrist
    extension, 90 deg MCP
    flexion, PIP mobile

    METACARPAL 2ND & 3RD:


    Radial Gutter

    MIDDLE & PROXIMAL PHALANX:


    Nondisplaced: Buddy Tape
    Displaced: Ulnar vs Radial Gutter
    90 deg MCP flexion, 15 deg PIP
    flexion, 5 deg DIP flexion

    DISTAL PHALANX: U Shaped finger splint


    Mallet Finger (extensor tendon injury in the distal phalanx) - splint only the
    DIP joint in hyperextension
    Jersey Finger ((flexor digitorum profundus avulsion) - DIP and PIP joints in slight flexion 15-20 deg

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