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Grant enables new wrist-splint device to move to clinical trials

Posted on 27/12/2008

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Grant enables new wrist-splint device to move to clinical trials

A new device that offers a more effective method of splinting for wrist fractures, devised by a Loughborough University designer and a consultant orthopaedic surgeon, has been awarded a grant from the Audi Design Foundation.

The grant of £19,840 will now allow Loughborough lecturer George Torrens and John Dooley from Hillingdon Hospital to produce a prototype of the device, known as Fit-Splint, and enable an initial series of clinical trials to begin in early 2009. 

George Torrens (L) and Dr Ian Campbell.