Orthotic treatment of the hand. What's new?

Abstract

Keeping abreast of the latest orthotic products is challenging. Commercial orthoses need to be critically evaluated for their applicability to the person with rheumatic disease. Custom-made orthoses play an invaluable role in achieving a wide range of therapeutic goals: improving function and pinch, stabilizing individual joints, preventing positional contractures, protecting joints from trauma, stretching the intrinsic muscles, correcting joint- and soft-tissue contractures, and controlling inflammation.