General Splinting Techniques Useful for Sprains of the wrist, thumb, knee, or fingers
Channel: 080594M127
Date: 2011-06-13

In this video I'll show you how to splint your injured limb with an ace bandage. If you break a finger get an aluminum sabot from your doctor then bandage it with an ace bandage. The knee is one of the hardest things to splint. The hardest thing to splint is the thumb because it is your shortest finger and your thumb is a vital part of your hand. There are 3 phalanges in each finger distal, middle or intermediate, proximal. The thumb has two phalanges distal and proximal. Between each of the phalanges you have the dip joint (Distal Interphalangeal Joint), pip joint and exception of the thumb MCP joint (Metacarpophalangeal joint) You have 5 metacarpals in each hand your first is the bone that connects the thumb to the wrist, the second connects your index to your wrist the third connects your middle finger to the wrist, the the fourth meta connects your ring finger to your wrist, and the fifth connects your pinky to the wrist. Other bones include the scaphoid which has a horrible blood supply which is in between your thumb and wrist very close to the first metacarpal, the trapezium, the lunate, the hamate, the pisiform, the triquetrem, and the trapezoid. The sesamoid bone is located on the base of the first metacarpal of the thumb. In the leg you have the femur, the femoral condyle, the tibia. The knee joint consists of the femur, the patella, and the tip of the tibia aka the plateau. The forearm consists of two bones known as the ulna and the radius, and the upper arm consists of the olecranon, humerus, and the deltoid muscle. Fractures of the olecranon, and the patella almost always need surgery. This goes the same to the hamate. If you have fractured more than one finger treatment with a rigid brace, or a cast may be necessary.