Patent ID: 6988998

Claim:
A splint positionable about a user's hand and for treating phalanx fractures, said splint comprising: a flexible body sized and shaped for being removably positionable about the user's hand, said body having a first opening for distally receiving a user's thumb therethrough and further having opposed end portions disposed proximal to the first opening and parallel to a longitudinal plane extending along a top surface of the user's hand, said body further having a second opening spaced from the first opening for allowing selected metacarpals to extend distally therethrough and away from said end portions; means for maintaining said end portions at selected spatial relationships so that a user can readily apply and remove said splint as needed; a flexible aluminum plate having opposed corner portions and for engaging fractured metacarpals along a path substantially transverse to an axis so that associated metacarpal phalangeal joints will be maintained at a selected angle offset from the axis while allowing medial and distal metacarpal phalangeal joints to move along an unrestricted paths respectively; a clamp having opposed end portions adapted to be spaced across a user's palm, said clamp further having a substantially U-shape; and means for adjusting a length of said clamp so that the fractured metacarpals can be adapted between mobile and immobile positions.