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

Early Shortening of Wrist Flexor Muscles Coincides With Poor Recovery After Stroke

What the hell prevents this from occurring? That is what survivors want to know. On my own I started wearing these, wore out three sets in 4 years.  They start to smell after a while.

Seems to have worked, my wrist is somewhat loose but very little movement because of dead area in brain. 















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Karin L. de Gooijer-van de Groep, MSc, Jurriaan H. de Groot, PhD, Hanneke van der Krogt, MD, , , ...

First Published June 25, 2018 Research Article

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Background. The mechanism and time course of increased wrist joint stiffness poststroke and clinically observed wrist flexion deformity is still not well understood. The components contributing to increased joint stiffness are of neural reflexive and peripheral tissue origin and quantified by reflexive torque and muscle slack length and stiffness coefficient parameters.
Objective. To investigate the time course of the components contributing to wrist joint stiffness during the first 26 weeks poststroke in a group of patients, stratified by prognosis and functional recovery of the upper extremity.  
Methods. A total of 36 stroke patients were measured on 8 occasions within the first 26 weeks poststroke using ramp-and-hold rotations applied to the wrist joint by a robot manipulator. Neural reflexive and peripheral tissue components were estimated using an electromyography-driven antagonistic wrist model. Outcome was compared between groups cross-sectionally at 26 weeks poststroke and development over time was analyzed longitudinally.
Results. At 26 weeks poststroke, patients with poor recovery (Action Research Arm Test [ARAT] ≤9 points) showed a higher predicted reflexive torque of the flexors (P < .001) and reduced predicted slack length (P < .001) indicating shortened muscles contributing to higher peripheral tissue stiffness (P < .001), compared with patients with good recovery (ARAT ≥10 points). Significant differences in peripheral tissue stiffness between groups could be identified around weeks 4 and 5; for neural reflexive stiffness, this was the case around week 12.  
Conclusions. We found onset of peripheral tissue stiffness to precede neural reflexive stiffness. Temporal identification of components contributing to joint stiffness after stroke may prompt longitudinal interventional studies to further evaluate and eventually prevent these phenomena.

Early Shortening of Wrist Flexor Muscles Coincides With Poor Recovery After Stroke

Useless information. Survivors want to know how to prevent that. Do some useful research instead.  I wore a fabric wrist brace with the removeable metal splint inside for years. Did that on my own, seemed to prevent wrist shortening/contracture. 

Early Shortening of Wrist Flexor Muscles Coincides With Poor Recovery After Stroke 

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Erwin de Vlugt, PhD²

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First Published June 25, 2018 Research Article

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Article first published online: June 25, 2018

https://doi.org/10.1177/1545968318779731

Karin L. de Gooijer-van de Groep, MSc¹, Jurriaan H. de Groot, PhD¹, Hanneke van der Krogt, MD¹, Erwin de Vlugt, PhD², J. Hans Arendzen, MD, PhD¹, Carel G. M. Meskers, MD, PhD^{3, 4}

¹Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

²Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands

³VU Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands

⁴Amsterdam Movement Sciences, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Corresponding Author: Karin L. de Gooijer-van de Groep, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Leiden University Medical Center, Postzone B0-Q, P.O. Box 9600, 2300 RC Leiden, the Netherlands. Email: k.l.de_gooijer-van_de_groep@lumc.nl

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Abstract

Background. The mechanism and time course of increased wrist joint stiffness poststroke and clinically observed wrist flexion deformity is still not well understood. The components contributing to increased joint stiffness are of neural reflexive and peripheral tissue origin and quantified by reflexive torque and muscle slack length and stiffness coefficient parameters.
Objective. To investigate the time course of the components contributing to wrist joint stiffness during the first 26 weeks poststroke in a group of patients, stratified by prognosis and functional recovery of the upper extremity.  
Methods. A total of 36 stroke patients were measured on 8 occasions within the first 26 weeks poststroke using ramp-and-hold rotations applied to the wrist joint by a robot manipulator. Neural reflexive and peripheral tissue components were estimated using an electromyography-driven antagonistic wrist model. Outcome was compared between groups cross-sectionally at 26 weeks poststroke and development over time was analyzed longitudinally.  
Results. At 26 weeks poststroke, patients with poor recovery (Action Research Arm Test [ARAT] ≤9 points) showed a higher predicted reflexive torque of the flexors (P < .001) and reduced predicted slack length (P < .001) indicating shortened muscles contributing to higher peripheral tissue stiffness (P < .001), compared with patients with good recovery (ARAT ≥10 points). Significant differences in peripheral tissue stiffness between groups could be identified around weeks 4 and 5; for neural reflexive stiffness, this was the case around week 12.  
Conclusions. We found onset of peripheral tissue stiffness to precede neural reflexive stiffness. Temporal identification of components contributing to joint stiffness after stroke may prompt longitudinal interventional studies to further evaluate and eventually prevent these phenomena.