Have seen and held the Thomas splint but until now had not known the history of it would love to actually fit one in order to see it work. Hope this helps. My father used a Thomas Splint to mend an adult cows broken leg many years ago.
I still have the splint which he had made. It was fitted slightly differently to a bovine in that it fitted between the cleft hoof and was secured with wire stapled to the hard part of hoof. It worked by taking the animals weight from shoulder to ground and therefore allowed the leg to heal.
The leg was strapped to the long bars and the straps acted as supports and straighteners at the same time. Henry Wade was a great advocate for the use of the Thomas Splint and pressed Allenby to order its supply in large numbers. I had a Thomas traction fitted in age I had osteomyelitis and fractured femur site of osteomyelitis whilst recovering in hospital. I was left with a severely bent leg. In I had a plate fitted the length of the femur to straighten in part my leg. I would love to know, for my own information, if the Thomas Traction splint may have caused the deformity of my leg.
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Search for:. A revolution in treatment: the Thomas splint. Notes: 1. It is a simple tool used to effectively immobilize limbs and has successfully reduced the morbidity and mortality that was once involved with limb fractures. The Thomas splint was first introduced by Hugh Owen Thomas in , in his book titled, Diseases of the hip, knee and ankle joints with their deformities, treated by a new and efficient method. Thomas was a Welsh physician who specialized in the study and treatment of diseases affecting the musculoskeletal system — primarily tuberculosis, polio, and rickets.
The first variation of the Thomas splint was used for treatment of tuberculosis affecting the knee. The initial design included a metal ring, wrapped in leather, fitted around the groin and attached by metal rods to a smaller ring around the ankle. Traction would be applied by tightening strips of leather supporting the leg around a crossbar. They are typically made of clear plastic.
They fit between and over the upper and lower teeth. Dental splints can help ease muscle tension and stabilize the jaw. An Occlusal Splint also called a bite splint , bite plane, or night guard is a removable dental appliances carefully moulded to fit the upper or lower arches of teeth worn at night to reduce the amount of grinding pressure transferred to the teeth.
When was the Thomas splint first used? Category: medical health first aid. The Thomas splint. The earliest splint was first used in for treating diseases of the knee such as tuberculosis by prolonged rest and immobilisation, 1 and only later for the management of fractures of the lower limb.
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