How to do the boutonniere Elastoplast splint technique for the management of mallet deformities

Felix Behan MBBS, FRACS (Plast), FRCS
Department of Surgery, St Vincent’s Hospital, University of Melbourne, Victoria, AUSTRALIA.

The boutonniere Elastoplast splint technique (BEST) is successful because it respects the three points governing mallet finger repair—enlocation, pain score and extensor lag. It offers a simple non-surgical solution for mallet deformities, with or without fractures, acute or chronic, in the young and the elderly, and avoidance of hospital admissions which means it has applications for regional services but best applied by a person experienced in hand surgery.

This video forms supplementary material to the 'How I do it' paper published in the Australasian Journal of Plastic Surgery, vol 5, no 2, September 2022.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.34239/ajops.v5n2.400