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1: J Hand Surg [Br]. 2001 Jun;26(3):261-3.Click here to read Links

The use of a moulded metacarpal brace versus neighbour strapping for fractures of the little finger metacarpal neck.

Harding IJ, Parry D, Barrington RL.

Department of Trauma and Orthopaedics, Kettering General Hospital, Kettering, UK. ianjharding@hotmail.com

Seventy-three patients with fractures of the neck of the little finger metacarpal were randomized to treatment with a moulded metacarpal brace or neighbour strapping. Sixty-five of these attended for follow-up at 3 weeks. Both treatment modalities permitted a functional range of movement, but patients treated with the metacarpal brace had significantly less pain than those treated with neighbour strapping, and this facilitated an early return to work. Copyright 2001 The British Society for Surgery of the Hand.

PMID: 11386781 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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