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    This document describes various types of upper extremity casts and splints used to immobilize and treat injuries to the shoulder, arm, wrist, hand, and fingers. It provides details on shoulder spica casts, bolero casts, Velpeau casts, short arm casts, Muenster short arm casts, gauntlet casts, thumb spica casts, long arm casts, hanging casts, U-slab/humeral splints, gutter splints, thumb splints, long arm posterior splints, and sugar tong splints. The document explains the injuries that each type is used to treat and how they are applied to immobilize different areas of the upper extremity.

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    This document describes various types of upper extremity casts and splints used to immobilize and treat injuries to the shoulder, arm, wrist, hand, and fingers. It provides details on shoulder spica casts, bolero casts, Velpeau casts, short arm casts, Muenster short arm casts, gauntlet casts, thumb spica casts, long arm casts, hanging casts, U-slab/humeral splints, gutter splints, thumb splints, long arm posterior splints, and sugar tong splints. The document explains the injuries that each type is used to treat and how they are applied to immobilize different areas of the upper extremity.

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    This document describes various types of upper extremity casts and splints used to immobilize and treat injuries to the shoulder, arm, wrist, hand, and fingers. It provides details on shoulder spica casts, bolero casts, Velpeau casts, short arm casts, Muenster short arm casts, gauntlet casts, thumb spica casts, long arm casts, hanging casts, U-slab/humeral splints, gutter splints, thumb splints, long arm posterior splints, and sugar tong splints. The document explains the injuries that each type is used to treat and how they are applied to immobilize different areas of the upper extremity.

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    Upper Extremity Casting

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    This document describes various types of upper extremity casts and splints used to immobilize and treat injuries to the shoulder, arm, wrist, hand, and fingers. It provides details on shoulder spica casts, bolero casts, Velpeau casts, short arm casts, Muenster short arm casts, gauntlet casts, thumb spica casts, long arm casts, hanging casts, U-slab/humeral splints, gutter splints, thumb splints, long arm posterior splints, and sugar tong splints. The document explains the injuries that each type is used to treat and how they are applied to immobilize different areas of the upper extremity.

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    The document describes different types of casts and splints used to immobilize and treat injuries in the upper extremities.

    Shoulder spica, plaster bolero, plaster velpeau, short arm cast, muenster short-arm cast, gauntlet cast, and thumb spica cast are some of the upper extremity casts described.

    Shoulder spica casts are used to treat humerus fractures and protect soft tissue injuries around the shoulder. Plaster bolero casts are useful for treating unstable clavicle fractures and can incorporate the upper arm if needed.

    UPPER EXTREMITY

    CASTING

    dr. Tangkas SMHS


    Sibarani,Sp.OT (K) OSM
    ONE DAY CASTING ACADEMY
    RSO.Prof.DR.R.SOEHARSO
    SURAKARTA
    2012

    Type of Upper Extremity Cast

    Shoulder Spica
    Used to treat humerus fractures, to
    protect soft-tissue injuries about the
    shoulder, and in surgical repairs of
    the shoulder and proximal humerus.

    PLASTER BOLERO
    Useful for treating unstable fractures
    of the clavicle that require
    hyperextension of the two shoulders
    to maintain position.
    It can also be applied to one
    shoulder, incorporating the upper
    arm if necessary.

    Plaster BOLERO

    PLASTER VELPEAU
    Used only as a soft-tissue dressing to
    immobilize the shoulder or humerus.
    When combined with a sugar-tong
    splint on the humerus, it is very
    effective for immobilizing fractures of
    the shaft of the humerus.

    Short Arm Cast


    The short-arm cast can be used to
    immobilize the wrist and the base of
    the finger metacarpals for a host of
    disorders.
    The application of a short-arm cast to
    maintain the reduction of a relatively
    stable Colles fracture

    MUENSTER SHORT-ARM CAST


    Used to immobilize the forearm and
    wrist when flexion and extension of
    the elbow, but limited supination and
    pronation, are desired

    GAUNTLET CAST
    Useful to immobilize fractures of the
    metacarpals of the hand and for
    minor wrist injuries

    THUMB SPICA CAST


    Used primarily for fractures of the
    scaphoid and other instabilities of the
    carpal bones amenable to cast
    treatment.
    It also is used for fractures involving
    all elements of the thumb itself.

    Long Arm Cast


    The cast is applied from
    just below the axilla to
    just proximal to the
    metacarpophalangeal
    joints of the digits but
    leaving the thumb free.

    Hanging cast
    The arm is placed
    over the lower chest
    with the elbow at 90
    degrees.
    The top of the
    humeral component
    of the cast is above
    the humeral
    fracture.

    SPLINTS

    U Slab/Humeral Splint
    Humerus in line
    with body
    Elbow at 90
    degrees
    Palm facing chest
    Extent: axilla to
    over
    acromioclavicular

    U Slab/Humeral Splint
    Mould over
    shoulder for
    close fit
    Support with
    collar and cuff

    Gutter Splints
    Gutter splints are used for the
    treatment of phalangeal and
    metacarpal fractures

    Thumb Splint
    The thumb splint is made by applying
    a plaster slab from the tip of the
    thumb to approximately two-thirds of
    the way along the forearm

    Long-Arm Posterior
    Splint
    A long-arm posterior splint is used to
    immobilize a number of injuries to
    the elbow and forearm

    Sugar Tong Splint


    This splint permits
    immobilization in
    a position of
    pronation or
    supination without
    a circumferential
    cast being applied
    to the extremity

    THANK YOU

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