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Wrist Splint Perspective

A wrist support you mould to yourself. A flat, perforated pattern for a palm-side splint, cut to your own numbers — the way round your wrist and your forearm, the width of your palm, left or right. It prints flat in PLA, which softens in water at about 60 °C: warm it, lay it on the inside of your forearm over a sock, and it takes your shape in a minute, then hardens again. Three pairs of slots take the hook-and-loop straps we send with it; a notch frees the thumb and the palm bar stops before the knuckles so the fingers move. A support, not a medical device — for a sore wrist at the keyboard, a night brace, a first week of rest. Anything that hurts, swells or clicks belongs with a clinician.

Then put in your own numbers below if you have a tape measure — the fit comes from them.

Wrist: round the narrowest point above the hand. Forearm: round the thickest part, a hand's length below the elbow. Palm: across the knuckles, thumb out.

Moulding it. Fill a bowl with water at 60–65 °C (hot tap water plus a splash from the kettle; not boiling). Hold the splint under for 60–90 seconds until it goes soft and floppy. Shake it off, lay it on a sock or a thin sleeve on the inside of your forearm with the notch at the thumb, and wrap it round with your other hand, holding the wrist straight or a touch back. It stiffens in about a minute; run it under the cold tap to finish. Thread the straps through the slots. If the shape isn't right, warm it again and try again — as many times as you like.

How it is made. 2.4 mm PLA, the pattern covering just over half the way round so the straps close it. Six-millimetre holes on an 11 mm pitch through the forearm and wrist, none across the palm bar. Three pairs of slots for 25 mm hook-and-loop straps — three straps come in the box. The preview shows it twice: flat, as it prints, and curved, as it sits once moulded.

Please read. This is a printed support you shape yourself, for comfort and rest. It is not a medical device, it is not fitted by a clinician, and it is not for fractures, sprains, numbness or anything that swells or clicks — see a professional for those. Take it off if it rubs, and never sleep in a strap that is tight.

Sizes. Short, 190 mm to mid forearm, $34. Long, 240 mm, two thirds up the forearm, $42. Straps included.