HAND CAST FULL

HAND CAST FULL

Being able to make a full fist with our fingers is essential to being able to grip and pick up objects. If you find that this has happened to you be sure to speak to your doctor or plaster technician, asking them to adjust the length of the plaster to allow full finger movement. Unfortunately some plasters are applied and restrict the full movement of a person’s fingers so that they aren’t able to bend. If these structures do not move over the course of 6-8 weeks you are at a significantly higher risk of developing shoulder pain, stiffness and what is known as a ‘frozen shoulder’ – something you definitely do not want to have on top of trying to recover from a broken wrist!Īlso equally as important is the constant moving of our fingers and thumb while in a plaster cast. Shoulders are particularly complex and as we move our arm in our day to day activities our shoulder blade and shoulder joint rotate and move fluently in precise ways to facilitate our ability to lift and move our arms.

While slings can initially be beneficial to minimise swelling and discomfort, they should not be worn for extended periods of time as they prevent essential movement at the shoulder. Specifically, you may think that having your arm in a sling to support the weight of your plaster and protect it is a useful thing to do. While you might think that keeping your entire arm as still as possible is good to facilitate the healing of your fracture and to prevent further knocks to the area, what you’re more likely to find is that you will be faced with significant residual stiffness once your plaster cast is removed. Naturally with trauma and broken bones people will experience pain at the time of their injury, and even though the fracture may be protected in a plaster cast some people remember their pain experience and hold their arm tucked into their body in a protective position for the duration of their time in plaster. What people may not realise is that although our wrist and hand is plastered, it is incredibly important that we continue to move our shoulder, elbow, fingers and thumbs as much as we can. “But I thought I would be in and out of my plaster and everything would be fixed!” is a phrase we hear too often. You may quickly assume that this arm/hand is now automatically out of action for the next month and a half and you’ll need to dust up your skills on doing activities one handed, but did you know that there’s actually a lot you can be doing with your arm while it’s in plaster? All too commonly in our clinic we see patients who have joyfully reached the point where their plaster cast has been cut off only to find that they’re now experiencing shoulder pain or can no longer close their fingers to grip around objects. In an ideal swing that results in a minimal amount of hand cast, the hands stay close to the shoulder, with the hands and barrel staying inside the baseball before the barrel gets on plane with the path of the pitch.A quick misstep on some uneven ground, a reflexive move to perhaps try and intercept a ball or simply being in the wrong place at the wrong time… All it takes is a second and before we know it we’ve somehow ended up with a broken wrist and been put in a heavy plaster cast for 6 weeks. Having a large amount of Hand Cast Distance makes it difficult for a batter to hit the fastball, and/or adjust to hitting balls that occupy the middle or inside part of the plate. Hand Cast Distance allows coaches and players to quantify if a player is staying inside the ball, swinging with his ‘hands back’ and keeping the bat in the best possible position – over the back shoulder – before uncoiling the hands and the bat toward the pitch. Understanding this number will help the player create an efficient path with the hands to the ball. Hand Cast Distance can be the result of a true hand cast away from the body, or because of a shoulder turn during the load process.Ī larger Hand Cast Distance indicates an inefficient hand path to the ball and can cause a decrease in power metrics. Hand Cast Distance measures how far the hands move – in a lateral direction – away from the player’s load position at the start of the swing, to the point where the hands are at impact. USA Baseball Drills (SwingTracker Baseball).

Attaching using the High Performance Mount.

Hand cast