Cock-up splint

Cock-up splin

Principle:

1. -          Immobilises or stabilizes the wrist in dorsiflexion with volar or dorsal support.
2. -          Immobilizer is also needed for fracture healing and healing of nerve and soft tissue repairs.
3. -          Maintains correct joint alignment.

Indication:

1. Wrist splint without Thumb spica:
2. -          Boxer’s fracture.
3. -          Wrist sprain
4. -          Wrist strain
5. -          Soft tissue injury
6. -          Writs contracture
7. -          Distal radial fracture
8. -          General wrist pain
9. Wrist splint with thumb spica:
10. -          Scaphoid fracture
11. -          Lunate fracture
12. -          Trapezium fracture
13. -          Carpal tunnel syndrome
14. -          First metacarpal farcture
15. -          De Quervain’s Tenosynovitis
16. -          Injury to the ulnar collateral ligament of the €Thumb.