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cool site about custom made splints

Treatments for disorders of the UE. There are pictures of the devices, the indicated diagnosis, purpose, and benefits. A great resource if you work in a clinic that does splinting/orthotics. These are custom fabricated and there are benefits associated with making your client's splints-removable, adjustable, reform-able, can get wet, and can be cleaned.

This article is a good read on splinting! It discusses different kinds of splints and ways they can be used for therapy.

This page details a number of custom hand orthotic devices and what conditions they treat and their purposes.

Enhance Your Computing Comfort And ProductivityWelcome to ErgoDirectUSA.com! We offer products that help you feel more comfortable at the computer. By customizing your workspace you can enjoy the benefits of improved productivity and an enhanced sense of well-being. At the same time, you'll be reducing your risk of work-related injuries and preventing the development of any computer-related health conditions.

This website is from an OT who has expertise in sexual rehabilitation. Very client centered. Offers an evaluation, compensatory techniques, adaptive devices, and sex aides. Offers sexual programs customized to a couple's needs. Located in Brooklyn, NY.

A Canadian company specializing in UE prosthetics. Also contains a great glossary explaining terms and vocabulary.

I-limb digits is the fully customized electronic prosthesis for people with missing fingers or partial hands.

This short video shows how a prosthetic hand is made from a 3D printer. At the TNOTA Conference last year, a presenter described the impact of 3D printing on manufacturing in general and on OT interventions specifically. Prosthetics can now be much more customized to the needs of the patient, more aesthetically appealing, quicker to make, and much less expensive. The possibilities of use of 3D printing with disabled individuals are nearly limitless.

One of my husband's co-workers has a 3-D printer. Those things are changing our world! I love this!

This is realy neat Beth! I like that is is much less expensive and I actually think these look less like prothetics and more on the advanced robotic side. With practice a person could make alot of heads turn in a curious way when out in public with one of these 3D devices!

This guys work looks fascinating. Shared as it is important to know all available options.

A computer software concept has been developed that will enable clinicians with no experience in Computer Aided Design (CAD) to design and make custom-made 3D printed wrist splints for rheumatoid arthritis sufferers. The 3D printed splints are not only more comfortable and attractive but potentially cheaper than the current ones that are 'ugly, bulky, and can make a patients arm sweat'.

What a great idea. So many things are being done/accomplished due to 3-D printing. I can only imagine what our future holds in the area.