A detailed explanation of the method of using splints

The time when splints should be applied is after the fifth day and further until the organ is protected from damage. While the organ is enlarging, you should hesitate to apply splints, and haste in this matter often causes damage - swelling, blisters and itching. But if you delay the application of splints, then there must be something that serves as a replacement for them - a bandage well secured with ribbons, and a suitable position of the body; if this is impossible, then splints cannot be avoided, even from the very beginning. The splints should hold the bandages and compresses firmly and straight so that they fit evenly; the thickest splints should be at the fracture, but do not press them too hard and increase the contraction little by little, and let the patient himself check this according to his condition.

If bandages and compresses come off the splints, then do not multiply their number and the number of turns, because when they come off, the dressing turns out to be weak; the top bandage should not be tied to the splints so that it crooks them and takes them out of the correct position; the bandages should first be unraveled every two day, but out of necessity, and not of your own free will, especially if itching appears, then you should do as we have prescribed.

When the seventh day has passed after the dressing, loosening it after a longer period - every four or five days at such a time, you can not be afraid of itching or swelling, then the dressings are loosened a little so that they do not interfere with the passage of nutrients. If you can keep the splints and not take them off at least until the twentieth day, then do not take them off - there is no harm from it. However, splints are sometimes removed from time to time, not for any obvious reason, but out of caution, to find out what is happening, and to look at the exposed area to see if its color and condition have changed.

You already know that contraction should not reach such a degree that it delays access to the fracture of nutrients; a fracture heals only thanks to the flow of blood and strong nutrients reaching it. Under no circumstances be in a hurry to remove and discard the splints, even if you notice that the bones are merging. It often turns out that the callus has not yet strengthened, and the organ is crooked, and, truly, it is better to leave the splints on the organ unnecessarily than to remove them before How can we manage without them? Don't rush and put it off