This splint is the equivalent of the ulnar gutter splint except that is placed along the radial aspect of the wrist and sandwiches the 2nd and 3rd fingers.
Broad ulnar gutter splint.
It makes gripping things with your hand difficult.
Protects wrist on volar and dorsal surfaces.
Splinting the hand with a peripheral nerve injury is both easy and difficult.
Definitive or alternative treatment of injuries commonly treated with ulnar gutter splint 8.
The ease of splinting results from the readily recognizable and often identical deformities.
These splints must be heated prior to molding.
Therefore unlike many other hand injuries the deformities resulting from isolated peripheral nerve paralysis are usually effectively splinted using standard splinting designs.
The following video demonstrates how to set an ulnar gutter splint.
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Fracture of the fourth or fifth metacarpal and injuries to the fourth and f.
An ulnar gutter splint is a flexible splint that is used to support stabilize and immobilize injuries dislocations and fractures of the hands fingers or wrists to allow the bones and tissues to heal properly.
Use as a static base for outriggers etc.
Trick of the trade.
This splint however unnecessarily immobilizes the 4th and 5th fingers.