Surveys of the Efficacy, Technical Difficulty, Ethics, and Dissemination of Splint/Orthosis Fabrication Using Thermoplastic Splint Sheets

Objective: For splints/orthoses fabricated by therapists during hand therapy to be recognized as a novel specialized medical technology, we demonstrated their ease of dissemination, ethics, safety, and effectiveness. We also investigated the technical difficulty and dissemination of splints/orthoses in a first study on the current situation of splint/orthoses fabrication using thermoplastic splinting sheets, and evaluated the effectiveness, safety, and ethics of splinting sheets in a second study.