Patent ID: 7878997

Claim:
A mallet finger splint for splinting two front phalanxes of a mallet finger in a position in which a front finger joint is held in an extended position between a front (distal) phalanx and a middle (medial) phalanx, the mallet finger splint comprising; a shape of a spoon with a handle and a shell such that the handle lies below the middle (medial) phalanx, whilst the front (distal) phalanx comes to lie in the shell, and wherein a length of the handle is adapted to a length of the middle (medial) phalanx such that the middle finger joint is freely movable; the mallet finger splint formed as one piece comprising an aluminum sheet that is plastically deformable by hand, the aluminum sheet including: corrugations formed therein for longitudinal stiffening, whose crests run in the longitudinal direction of the splint or of the finger; perforations formed therein for improving breathing activity, an intermediate layer of PU-foam covering on both inner and outer sides of the mallet finger splint, and a further cover layer arranged on the intermediate layers, the intermediate layers bonded to the aluminum sheet metal, and the intermediate layers and the associated cover layers are in each case laminated together.