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air splint

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air splint
n.
An inflatable cylinder used to immobilize fractured or injured limbs to promote healing.


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Examples of strengthening activities were as follows: (1) manipulating larger to smaller objects hidden in play dough with shaping by increasing to different resistance levels of Theraputty (Sammons Preston, Bolingbrook, IL) and (2) increasing endurance while holding a paddleboard with hemiplegic arm and stabilizing the board on his other arm, which was in an air splint cast.
Tune in one Galyan's commercial and you'll see a running shoe with a built in air splint that can be inflated should the jogger turn an ankle a couple miles from home.
 
 
 
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