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14th Triennial Congress of the International Federation of Societies for Surgery of the Hand (IFSSH), 11th Triennial Congress of the International Federation of Societies for Hand Therapy (IFSHT)

17.06. - 21.06.2019, Berlin

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Presentation of a “Pilot Project” with help of the “Dinosaur Splint” and treatment protocol example

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  • presenting/speaker Joanna Jourdan - HLO Handtherapie Berlin, Berlin, Germany
  • Heiko Lorenzen - HLO Handtherapie Berlin, Berlin, Germany

International Federation of Societies for Surgery of the Hand. International Federation of Societies for Hand Therapy. 14th Triennial Congress of the International Federation of Societies for Surgery of the Hand (IFSSH), 11th Triennial Congress of the International Federation of Societies for Hand Therapy (IFSHT), 11th Triennial Congress of the International Federation of Societies for Hand Therapy (IFSHT). Berlin, 17.-21.06.2019. Düsseldorf: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House; 2020. DocIFSHT19-1320

doi: 10.3205/19ifssh1558, urn:nbn:de:0183-19ifssh15583

Published: February 6, 2020

© 2020 Jourdan et al.
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. See license information at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

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Clinical issue/s: Wrist trauma can cause severe limited range of motion.

If needed, the rehabilitation is essential for the treatment.

Clinical reasoning: Based on a proposed splint to increase and regain wrist range of motion in flexion and extension limitation, we started a pilot project of the known "Dinosaur Splint" where 10 patients received this special designed splint.

Every patient had a severe limited range of motion of the wrist after a trauma.

Innovative, analytical or new approach: The splint was designed 12 week post trauma with low thermoplastic material and put on with a strict protocol followed by exercises. In a period of 6 weeks, the time where the Splint was on, increased to an hour per day. Combined with hand therapy, we had a positive feedback in 8/10 cases, with an increasing range of motion.

Contribution to advancing HT practice: We are preparing a larger project, including more patients to test the splint and the proposed treatment protocol since we are expecting the results to continue to be positive.