Hand splints

 I've tried a couple of times to get spasticity out of my fingers. Failure on all counts!

1. Failure number 1: 

1. I received the godawful hand built blue plastic hand and wrist splint for nighttime use that rotted after 3 years and never managed to keep my fingers straight no matter how I tried velcroing them down.

2. Benik w-700 hand splint: 

   It is pretty much impossible to put on one-handed, but this should have been given in the hospital to prevent spasticity in the hand from changing to contractures. 

   How to heat it first, then putting it on, one handed by yourself is quite difficult. 

   W700 Instructional Video for heating

   How to put on the Benik W-700 splint

   
   

   
   
   

   The pieces of the splint

   

   
   

   On the hand

3. This one came from Temu, but can't find it on the site now. It is way too vigorous in opening the fingers and doesn't work on the thumb at all.

   

   
   

4. I expect your doctor and therapists to know EXACTLY what hand splint will  relax your spastic fingers enough. Do they?

Benik w-700 hand splint 2nd post

It has been two years since I last tried this, last night spent 30 minutes trying to get it on and failed. With the amount of velcro on here one-handed  donning of this is almost impossible.

 

I bought this a long time ago and if I had this useable in the same time frame as I was using the wrist splint I would likely have more supple fingers. I received the godawful hand built blue plastic hand and wrist splint for nighttime use that rotted after 3 years and never managed to keep my fingers straight no matter how I tried velcroing them down. I finally broke down and installed this on my hand after getting tired of having to constantly flex my fingers open and closed. I hate not knowing the protocol number of times needed to passively flex your fingers before it breaks the spastiscity. The fingers seem to be pulled out correctly but the thumb doesn't have a splint to pull it out.

On my own I started wearing these, wore out three sets in 4 years.  They start to smell after a while. But my wrist never got close to contraction.

On the hand

The pieces of the splint

Benik w-700 hand splint

I bought this a long time ago and if I had this useable in the same time frame as I was using the wrist splint I would likely have more supple fingers. I received the godawful hand built blue plastic hand and wrist splint for nighttime use that rotted after 3 years and never managed to keep my fingers straight no matter how I tried velcroing them down. I finally broke down and installed this on my hand after getting tired of having to constantly flex my fingers open and closed. I hate not knowing the protocol number of times needed to passively flex your fingers before it breaks the spastiscity. The fingers seem to be pulled out correctly but the thumb doesn't have a splint to pull it out.

How to heat it first, then putting it on, one handed by yourself is quite difficult. 

W700 Instructional Video for heating

How to put on the Benik W-700 splint

The pieces of the splint

On the hand

Probably need to adjust it since the finger tips are extended too far. but at least it seems to be working and can likely wear it at night.