Rigid foam polyurethane hand splint

Claim 1

A polyurethane hand burn splint to support the hand in a position to prevent scar contractures between the individual fingers of said hand said splint comprising in combination: a. a rigid pistol grip shaped hand positioning means; b. a rigid concave paddle-shaped forearm retaining section; c. a flexible wrist supporting means joining said shaped hand positioning means to said forearm retaining section wherein said wrist supporting means is thicker but narrower than said forearm retaining section and narrower than said hand positioning means; d. said hand positioning means comprises a first, second, third and fourth semicircular individual concaved gutter splints with flared separation ridges and a semicircular thickly flared cylindrical section adjacent to and forming said first gutter splint for separating the thumb and index fingers of said hand; and e. said fourth gutter splint being further constructed substantially at a right angle to the longitudinal axis of the hand splint so that the middle joint of the little finger is positioned at about 20* flexion.