– Victoria Priganc, PhD, OTR, CHT, CLT, Practice Forum Editor.
—Kristin Valdes, OTD, OT, CHT, Practice Forum Editor.
These authors have designed a splint that attempts to optimize outcomes following fracture and surgical treatment Peggy Fillion, OTRL, CHT, Practice Forum Editor.
These authors have designed a single-digit, composite flexion splint to help achieve this goal. Peggy Fillion, OTR, CHT, Practice Forum Editor.
This group of therapists has nicely designed a tool to assist in strengthening the intrinsics. Peggy Fillion, OTR/L, CHT, Practice Forum Editor.
These authors have modified some of the original traction splints to create a hand-based version to use for the patients with an intraarticular, proximal interphalangeal joint fracture. Victoria Priganc, PhD, OTR, CHT, CLT, Practice Forum Editor.
These authors describe the creation and utilization of a static progressive orthosis to assist a patient in regaining wrist radioulnar deviation. Victoria Priganc, PhD, OTR, CHT, CLT, Practice Forum Editor.
This author has designed a low profile splint that helps to improve proximal interphalangeal joint extension lag and to encourage functional use of the hand.— Peggy Fillion, OTR, CHT, Practice Forum Editor.
The splint is designed to assist with the compensatory pain that people frequently feel as they learn to reuse their hand and to give people an understanding of what it feels like to have a prosthetic digit. Victoria Priganc, PhD, OTR, CHT, CLT, Practice Forum Editor.
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