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Restorative Medical splints and braces designed to work against neurological tone and shortened tissue.
What is neurological tone and shortened tissue?
- When a person suffers from any kind of brain or spinal cord (i.e. neurological)injury/trauma/disease process (this could be traumatic brain injury, stroke, cerebral palsy, Lou Gehrig’s disease, spinal cord injury, Parkinson’s Disease, M.S., etc.), they generally have some sort of condition that produces an involuntary contraction of a muscle.
- This contraction can be short term, long term, or spastic. This is called neurological tone.
- If this tone is present long enough, the body will adapt to the limb position. The tissue will actually shorten to match the new position. This is called shortened adaptive tissue.
- Essentially, somewhere in the body after an injury, neurons short circuit, and constantly send a signal to the muscle to contract.
- To remedy this condition, we have to re-open that circuit or allow the affected area to think it received the message to relax.
What makes Restorative products different from standard orthopedic splints?
- An orthopedic splint is a medical device for the immobilization of limbs or the spine. They are designed to facilitate function and healing by limiting motion in particular planes, or eliminate movement altogether.
- A Restorative splint is actually designed to “Flex”. We want the patient to move when they have these “tonal episodes”. When their contractions start, our splints move with them. The splint creates resistance like a spring motion or an exercise. Our splints are constantly pulling them back to the set point, which is usually slightly stretched from their most open position.
- As they get accustomed to that position, we readjust the splint even greater. This slowly brings them closer to full range of motion.
- RMI’s designs are complex in concept, but simple in application. We use thermoplastic (plastic that can be heated up and moulded to any shape numerous times) to shape the splints in a way to create a spring effect without the need of a complex assembly.
- The spring effect works similar to the action of a fishing pole while fishing. The fishing pole allows the fish to pull against it, flexing the fishing pole. The fishing pole is always gently pulling back on the fish until the fish finally relaxes.
- Restorative Medical products are made to relax tone and re-lengthen the shortened tissue.
Durable Medical Equipment can offer a wide range of braces and splints to assist with all areas of the body.
Please click on the following link to find the right brace for your client's needs: Full Restorative Medical Brochure
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