Re: Yet another question-splinting

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> Sorry I keep asking questions but I just got a call from our OT.

She was concerned about

> 's pinkys and wants to try to do something to straighten

them out. Or at least to not

> compromise his joint. Has anyone used tape or splints (hes

too young for splints but she

> wants to buddy tape his pinky) to straighten it? Does it work? If

not do your children have

> problems with arthritis in these fingers? Thanks for your help

once again. Its tough when

> you are the only one (including the specialists treating your

child) with knowledge of this.

>

My daughter had splinting and taping done to straighten out her

pinky and fourth finger on one of her hands starting when she

was about 9 months old. She has incurving on both fingers, but

was born with camptodactyly, in the last three fingers of one

hand. Basically she was born making a fist, and her fingers

needed to be stretched out. Oncly her pinky still remains a bit

bent. This hasn't impeded any activity so far. But again, it wasn't

splinted for incurving, it was stretched and straightened out from

a clenched, bent in position.

Pamela