Night-time immobilization of the distal interphalangeal joint reduces pain and extension deformity in hand osteoarthritis.

Objective: DIP joint OA is common but has few cost-effective, evidence-based interventions. Pain and deformity [radial or ulnar deviation of the joint or loss of full extension (extension lag)] frequently lead to functional and cosmetic issues. We investigated whether splinting the DIP joint would improve pain, function and deformity.

[Reconstruction of the distal radioulnar joint using the Herbert ulnar head prosthesis].

Objective: To provide painfree forearm rotation in patients with degenerative changes of the distal radioulnar joint (DRUJ). The primary goal is to stabilize the DRUJ in patients with an unstable stump of the distal ulna following resection arthroplasty with the secondary effect of restoring painfree forearm rotation.

Indications: Instability of the distal ulna following various types of resection arthroplasties.

A comparison of immediate postreduction splinting constructs for controlling initial displacement of fractures of the distal radius: a prospective randomized study of long-arm versus short-arm splinting.

Purpose: To compare, in a prospective, randomized manner, the sugar tong splint with a short-arm radial gutter splint in terms of patient satisfaction and the ability to maintain reduction of distal radius fractures.

Methods: A total of 118 patients with displaced distal radius fractures were enrolled; 85 patients (85 fractures) were available for follow-up evaluation and were included in the study population. There were 26 men and 59 women with a mean age of 64 years.

The therapist's management of intra-articular fractures.

Fabrication of the dynamic traction splint is described in step-by-step fashion in order to aid surgeons to understand the principles of application of the method and to assist hand therapists to make the splint. The new 6-inch diameter arcuate hoop and the radial or ulnar gutter base splint are detailed. Modification of continuous passive motion machines is described for use in conjunction with dynamic traction.

Plaster splints: techniques and indications.

Various plaster splints can be used in the management of many acute musculoskeletal injuries seen in the emergency setting. These include gutter splints of thumb, radial and ulnar types; volar forearm, sugar-tong and posterior elbow splints, and knee, short leg and stirrup splints. When properly made, these devices afford symptomatic relief, mechanical support and sometimes even definitive therapy for fractures and soft tissue injuries of the extremities.