UE Orthoses Flashcards

1
Q

What are the purposes of UE orthoses?

A
  • Stabilize
  • Immobilize
  • Restrict
  • Mobilize
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What are the fit principles for UE orthoses?

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  • Do not pad a pressure area
  • Total contact splinting
  • Non-constricting straps
  • Wide straps
  • Flat straps
  • Anchor wrist securely
  • Pull straps toward you to secure
  • Diagonal straps
  • Allow for function
  • Maintain normal arches
  • Retain normal axis of rotation
  • Permit balanced muscle function
  • Provide for prehension
  • Free up the palm for sensory input
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Why do we not want to pad a pressure area?

A

Makes the brace even tighter, causing more pressure.

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Why do we want total contact splinting?

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Decreases the forces at any one area and helps spread out forces.

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What strap characteristics do we want in a brace?

A
  • Non-constricting
  • Wide straps
  • Flat straps
  • Diagonal straps
  • Pull towards you to secure
  • Anchors wrist securely
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With bracing we want to allow for _________ of whatever part is not braced.

A
function
-overbracing causes disuse atrophy
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We want to maintain normal _______ and _____ of _________.

A

arches and axis of rotation

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8
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With bracing we want to permit balanced __________ function.

A

muscle

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9
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We want to provide for prehension, which means what?

A

grasp

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10
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Why do we want to free up the palm?

A

sensory input

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What are some common pressure areas?

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  • Dorsal MCP with dorsal splints
  • Palmar MCP with c-bar splints
  • Ulnar head
  • Base of 1st metacarpal
  • Center of palm for wrist cock-up splints
  • Base of thenar eminence
  • Proximal end of splint
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Categories of splints?

A
  • Articular vs nonarticular

- Static vs Dynamic

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What is an articular splint?

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Splint that crosses a joint whether or not it allows motion.

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What is a nonarticular splint?

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Does not cross a joint.

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What is a static splint?

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Does not allow motion.

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What is a dynamic splint?

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Allows motion.

17
Q

Static Splints:

  • Can be _________ or _________
  • Placed in either ________ position or proper resting position for injury/deformity
  • Immobilize
  • Provide protection
  • Preserve Joint __________
  • Decrease ________
  • Prevent __________
  • Pressure to healing scars
A
  • articular or nonarticular
  • anatomical
  • alignment
  • spasticity
  • contracture
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Q

Motion Blocking Static Splints allow motion in _____ direction and limit motion in the other direction.

19
Q

Static Progressive Splints allow for gradual _________ of tissue and is modified as a patient progresses.

A

elongation

-via creep

20
Q

Dynamic Splints assist with __________.

A

mobiliation

21
Q

Dynamic Splints are usually used with ______ injuries.

22
Q

Dynamic With Motion Blocking Splints assist in one directions but allow ________ motion in the opposite direction.

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SPECIFIC DIAGNOSIS

A

SPECIFIC DIAGNOSIS

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Q

Humeral Fractures braces used?

A

Humeral Fracture Brace

-may cast if needed

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A Carpal Tunnel Brace keeps them in some wrist _________ and disallowing _______.
- extension | - flexion
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RA bracing will vary depending on what?
Location of synovitis. - Swan neck - Ulnar drift - Ulnar drift with wrist stabilizer
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Dequervain's Syndrome Splinting involves stabilizing the _________.
thumb (CMC and possible MCP)
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With a Scaphoid Fracture you must immobilize the _____.
CMC - often not seen on x-ray - if pain still after 1 week, will be treated like a scaphoid fracture
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What is Depuytren's Contracture?
Progressive shortening in palmar aponeurosis and fascia.
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Depuytren's Contracture Splinting involves providing _______ pressure and holds _____ in extension.
- palmar | - MCP
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What is Gamekeeper's Thumb?
Strain or tear of ulnar collateral ligament of 1st MCP.
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NERVE INJURIES
NERVE INJURIES
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Median Nerve Muscles?
- 1st and 2nd lumbricals - FPL, FPB - APB - Opponens pollicis
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Ulnar Nerve Muscles?
- 3rd and 4th lumbricals - interossei - ADD pollicis
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Radial Nerve Muscles?
-Wrist extensors
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Median Nerve Splints involve maintaining the thumb in ________ and also bringing digits 2 and 3 MCP into ________.
- opposition | - flexion
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Ulnar Nerve Splints involve maintaining digits 4 and 5 MCP into ________.
flexion
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Radial Nerve Splints involve ________ assist braces into extension.
-dynamic
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- Lateral Epicondylitis straps go _________. | - What do they do?
- distally | - Change insertion point of extensor muscles so that when forces are transmitted up they stop where the brace is.