What is a volar wrist splint used for?

What is a volar wrist splint used for?

Volar splints are applied to minimize movements and provide support and comfort by stabilizing an injury of the palm or foot. Immobilizing the joint reduces pain and helps the injury heal faster.

How should a wrist be positioned in a volar splint?

1. Splint should run from dorsal or volar mid-forearm to the distal palmar crease.
2. Wrist should be placed in slight extension (approximately 20°)

When should a volar splint be worn?

Volar Wrist Splint It has the benefits of being lightweight and well ventilated (Fig. 13.12). It can be bought off-the-shelf or custom fabricated with moldable thermoplastic. It is most commonly used after surgical lengthening of spastic extrinsic finger flexor muscles in a hand with modest volitional movement.

What does volar splint mean?

The forearm volar slab splint is a non-circumferential shell of plaster used to temporarily immobilize fractures and soft tissue injuries of the forearm and wrist. It is used to obtain pain relief until a circumferential cast is applied or until definitive surgical treatment is obtained.

What is volar wrist?

The volar aspect of the wrist includes the radius and ulna. The carpal bones are the scaphoid, leonate, triquetrum, pisiform, trapezium,trapezoid,capitate,hamate. An important structure in the volar aspect of the wrist is the Carpal tunnel.

What type of splint is a volar splint?

VOLAR/DORSAL FOREARM SPLINT Soft tissue injuries of the hand and wrist; temporary immobilization of carpal bone dislocations or fractures (excluding scaphoid and trapezium). Application. The splint extends from the dorsal or volar mid-forearm to the distal palmar crease (Figure 7).

What are the 4 methods of splinting?

Splint Types

• Hand. Buddy tape splint. Finger splint.
• Arm. Coaptation splint. Forearm volar splint‎ Long arm posterior splint. Radial gutter splint. Sling and swathe splint. Sugar tong splint. Double sugar tong splint. Thumb spica splint. Ulnar gutter splint.
• Leg. Long leg posterior splint. Stirrup splint. Posterior ankle splint.