Thermoplastic functional Pre-formed Resting splint

Splints have been used often throughout history to treat injuries. They usually keep a limb, for example, immobile while an injury is healing. A thermoplastic splint is typically light and can be molded to fit a body part. The plastic is usually shaped by heating it, while when cool it retains that shape if kept on or taken off. One can usually remove a thermoplastic splint to clean it, or to take a bath, for example.

This splint is ideal for positioning the hand with arthritis or mild hypertonicity. They position the wrist and hand in approximately 10 degree of wrist extension, 5 degree of ulnar deviation, 45 degree of MCP and PIP flexion, and 20 degree of DIG flexion, with the thumb in 45′ of extension midway between radial and palmar abduction.