Level Up your splinting skills. Become the Functional casting expert in your clinic.

What you'll get:

• Step by step video demonstration and instruction for 6 common upper extremity functional cast orthoses.
• 6 hours of CE credit for your HTCC
• Clinical pearls and tips to improve patient comfort and compliance.
• Functional cast therapy patient Wear and Care Instruction Handout
• Unlimited 24/7 access to video demonstrations to use as a quick reference in your busy hand therapy clinic. 

Upon completion of this course, you'll be able to:

1. Review Functional Cast Therapy (FCT)
2. Identify and Differentiate Describe and Understand Materials Used for FCT
3. Identify Indications for Using FCT for Individuals with Upper Extremity Pathology
4. Recognize Advantages and Disadvantages of using FCT
5. Review Upper Extremity Diagnoses Appropriate for FCT
6. Determine a Set Up Checklist Prior to Initial Fabrication
7. Review the Steps involved in the Application of FCT
8. Visualize Wrapping Technique with Ace Wrap to Practice on Clinicians Prior to Initial Fabrication of FCT
9. Visualize fabrication of 6 Common Upper Extremity Orthoses used in Orthopedic Clinics and clinical indications (Lab time to fabricate on own)
   • Wrist Cock-Up
   • Wrist Cock-Up (Alternative Method)
   • Thumb Spica
   • Short Opponens with IP included
   • Forearm-Based Ulnar Gutter
   • Hand-Based Ulnar Gutter
   • Long arm orthosis
10. Observe the Techniques available for FCT removal from patient
11. Review Necessary Patient Education for Care and Instruction of their Functional Cast
12. Review CPT Billing Strategies

Learning a new splinting or casting technique can be intimidating and challenging for the novice and even the skilled therapist. This course is designed for therapists who would like to gain confidence in their functional cast therapy (FCT) fabrication skills. If you have never made a functional cast orthosis for a patient, are intimidated to make a functional cast orthosis, or if you have tried using FCT and had difficulty manipulating the material; then this course will teach you tips and techniques to successfully fabricate custom functional cast orthoses to meet your patients’ needs.

You will view detailed step by step demonstrations and fabrication of 6 common upper extremity functional cast orthoses and the diagnoses appropriate for each. To successfully complete each orthosis, opportunity for lab time is provided throughout the course to allow immediate clinical application of FCT techniques.

To ensure mastery of FCT, you will understand clinical applications, problem solving, and planning strategies prior to fabrication.  All participants will learn zones of rigidity, material details, orthosis modification, use of padding, and strapping techniques. Learn how to remove the functional cast orthosis safely from the patient and confidently educate and instruct the patient for compliance.  In addition, Michelle will share her time saving tips and techniques from her 19 years of trial and error.