Lateral hock splints

RE: Lateral hock splints

Catriona MacIntyre — Thu, 26 Nov 2015 19:26:10 GMT

Me too Will. Buster hind limb splints. I apply them over a robust support dressing.

Last month had a Sheltie pup with a spiral tibial fracture - it did really well. I do change the dressing about twice a week, once at the absolute longest, because they are growing so fast

RE: Lateral hock splints

Will McMullan — Thu, 26 Nov 2015 09:37:17 GMT

It's for a puppy with an incomplete fracture, at the moment is well immobilised by a big bandage and cage rested but I'd like a little more support in the bandage and a splint should help keep the hock at a better angle of flexion than it is now. 3 weeks and it should be healed. I've managed them like this before with success.

RE: Lateral hock splints

Michael Woodhouse — Wed, 25 Nov 2015 22:53:24 GMT

Buy an oscillating saw. Amazingly useful.

RE: Lateral hock splints

Hannah Wynne Richards — Wed, 25 Nov 2015 19:53:31 GMT

Another for the bivalved cast Apply some padding, then 1 or 2 layers of cast, then insert an embryotomy wire either side before the rest of the cast. That way, it will be easy to saw through most of the cast, leaving you with just a thin layer to cut through to bivalve

Wynne

RE: Lateral hock splints

Rob Loxley — Wed, 25 Nov 2015 19:25:56 GMT

hocks are all different shapes and I'd rather make one with some casting tape, or indeed bivalve a cast

and I'd question the mechanical soundness of a lateral hock splint - surely you have to bandage it supertight to achieve anything meaningful?

RE: Lateral hock splints

Anthony Todd — Wed, 25 Nov 2015 17:15:23 GMT

Aluminium strip all sizes, bends to shape easy but never breaks, or aluminium wire if tiny or a cat.

Those plastic green ones sometimes broke, particularly at the snap-to-size indents.

RE: Lateral hock splints

Utlendigur — Wed, 25 Nov 2015 17:13:13 GMT

Buster splints from Kruuse?

http://www.kruuse.com/en/ecom/Forbindsstoffer_s%C3%A5r/Immobilisering_forbi/BUSTER_quicksplint/prod_272291.aspx