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Printing a static progressive orthosis for hand rehabilitation

Author(s) -

Li-Ying Huang,

Tien-Hsiang Wang,

Bao-Chi Chang,

Chia-I Huang,

LiWei Chou,

Shyh-Jen Wang,

WeiMing Chen

Publication year - 2021

Publication title -

journal of the chinese medical association

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 1728-7731

pISSN - 1726-4901

DOI - 10.1097/jcma.0000000000000568

Subject(s) - medicine , thumb , wrist , splint (medicine) , contracture , rehabilitation , range of motion , interphalangeal joint , ulnar deviation , splints , surgery , metacarpophalangeal joint , physical medicine and rehabilitation , orthodontics , physical therapy

Static progressive orthosis is used for the treatment of severe joint contracture after trauma and/or surgery. However, a custom-fabricated static progressive splint would be expensive and labor intensive. Especially, owing to very limited payment under the current Taiwanese National Health Insurance, the incentives to fabricate a patient-specific splint are insufficient for a therapist. To ease splint construction, we introduced three-dimensional (3D)-printed "shark fin"-shaped device works as a static progressive orthosis for the hand rehabilitation. The aim of this study was to describe and demonstrate the newly designed device.

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