Ladas & Parry
Soft hand and wrist splint
 A soft hand or hand and wrist splint for controlling and reducing hand and/or hand and wrist flexion contractures. The splint has a soft flexible body member such as polyurethane foam having a density of 1.1 to 2.0 pounds per cubic foot and an indentation load deflection on the order of 33 for a medium firm foam. The body member is sized so that its length extends from the fingertips to a region intermediate the thumb and the wrist or, if desired, to a region intermediate the wrist and the elbow depending upon whether just metacarpal flexion contratures are to be controlled or metacarpal and wrist flexion contractures are to be controlled, respectively. The body member is preferably covered with a soft stretch material such as a stretch terry cloth. A plurality of strap means are positionable over the body member and, if desired, may be secured or coupled to the terry cloth covering. The body member with the covering is adapted to be wrapped around the user's hand and/or hand, wrist and portion of the forearm area depending upon whether metacarpal flexion contractures or metacarpal and wrist flexion contractures are to be controlled. An aperture is provide through the body member and through the covering to allow the thumb of the user to extend therethrough in order to maintain thumb abduction. The straps are preferably adjustable in length so that varying degrees of compression of the body member upon the user may be made tightening or loosening the straps. Additionally, if desired, the density of the foam of the body member may be increased in certain preselected regions to provide greater resistance to metacarpal or metacarpal and wrist flexion contractures. 
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inventional inventional
Janet P.
Anderson