Splinting Guide for Burn Patient
1. Face
- Silicone thermoplastic splinting for scar management
- Silicone elastomer face mask/body suit
2. Neck
- Soft neck collar: The soft foam cervical collar is neck support that offer soft comfortable support while helping to reduce head and cervical vertebrae movement.
- Anterior neck conformed with tracheostomy aperture: Critically-ill patients with burns often require long-term ventilator support with tracheostomy placement. When these patients also have neck burns the therapist must go beyond the typical approaches to neck splinting.
3. Axilla/Shoulder
- Axillary pads
- Airoplane splints: Avoid over stretch on the brachial plexus.
4. Elbow
- Static elbow splint- anterior elbow conformed slab.
- Dynamic elbow splint- flexion or extension.
5. Wrist
- Static Splints:
- Volar/dorsal thermoplastic wrist cock-up splint
- Palmar wrist splint with a thumb component
- Dynamic Splints:
- Wrist radial/ulnar deviation splint
- Wrist flexion/extension/deviation
6. Hand
- Functional hand confirmer splint with wrist and foream support.
- Resting pan cake splint with stabilizer straps for thumb in near opposition.
- Functional hand position confiermer splint with thumb web space (c-bar).
- Digital gutter splint: single-digit volor splint, clamp type and multiple digit kit.
- Dynamic wist and hand splints: provides MCP/IP joint flexion/extension splints, thumb outrigger, knuckle benders, and spring-loaded flexion/extension.
7. Hip
- 3-point extension hip/knee splint: prevents hip knee contracture.
8. Knee
- Static posterior knee confirmer splint with pneumatic compression.
9. Ankle/Foot
- Compression burn garment for the leg.
- Static pneumatic AFO: A pneumatic splint that provides comfort, compression, and security through circumferential compression and immobilization. Rocker Bottom Sole assists in gait, transferring weight from heel to toe while walking.
- Static molded AFO shoe inserts
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