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What is Hand splints?

Hand splints are used for the treatment of contractures and to prevent and ameliorate existing conditons.

Reasons used & Efficacy

Reasons and Efficacy
Reasons used # of patients Major Moderate Slight None Can’t tell # of patients evaluated by
Fingers curl 24 3
Stiffness/Spasticity 17 1
Other 10 0
disease-related symptoms 5 0
Loss of manual dexterity 2 1
Slow my ALS progress 2 0

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Side Effects

Side effects as an overall problem

Severe
0 0%
Moderate
0 0%
Mild
2 33%
None
4 67%

Most commonly reported side effects

Pain
1 17%
as above
1 17%
  • Mild
  • Moderate
  • Severe

Stop Reasons

Why Patients Stopped Using (multiple reasons could be selected)
Reason # Patients Percentage of patients
Other
9 90% Other: 90%
Did not seem to work
1 10% Did not seem to work: 10%
Not indicated
1 10% Not indicated: 10%

See all 10 patients who’ve stopped using Hand splints

Duration See details about how long patients take this treatment ▼

How Long Current Patients Have Been Using Hand splints

0-1 month 1-3 months 3-6 months 6 months-1year 1-2 years 2 years or more
0
0
3
5
18
9

How Long Patients Used Before Stopping

0-1 month 1-3 months 3-6 months 6 months-1year 1-2 years 2 years or more
0
1
3
2
1
3

Adherence, Burden & Cost See details from patient evaluations ▼

Adherence

Taking treatment as prescribed

Always
2 33%
Usually
3 50%
Sometimes
1 17%
Never
0 0%

Burden

Difficulty being on treatment

Very
0 0%
Somewhat
0 0%
A little
4 67%
Not at all
2 33%

Cost

Paid out of pocket

$200+
0 0%
$100-199
0 0%
$50-99
0 0%
$25-49
0 0%
< $25
1 17%

Report created on November 21, 2009.