Spaso reductions and immobilisation
Spaso shoulder reduction technique
- Anterior shoulder dislocation
- Posterior shoulder dislocation
Volar Backslab
- Volar plate avulsion fractures
- Phalangeal fractures
- Metacarpal fractures
Volar Backslab Application Video
Thumb Spica
- 1st Metacarpal fracture
- Scaphoid fracture (in some shops)
Thumb Spica Application Video
Below Elbow Backslab / Colles / Smith fracture
- Scaphoid fracture (in our shop)
- Buckle fracture involving the volar surface
- Distal radius fracture (Colles and Smith)
Below Elbow Backslab Application Video / Colles Reduction
Below Elbow Backslab Application Video / Smith Reduction
Below Knee Backslab
- Multiple metatarsal fractures
- Base of 5th fractures that are not avulsion fractures
- Weber A+B ankle fractures
- Bi / Tri-malleolar fractures
- Calcaneal, Tarsal, cuboid, cuneiform fractures
Below Knee Backslab Application Video
Additional Resources
- Spaso Breaks his silence – Spaso Miljesic reduction and immobilisation techniques
- Plaster, Fibreglass and Splints – Dan Smith plaster tips and tricks
- Simon and Neil get plastered – Backslabs, splints, CAM boots and Darco shoes
- A better way to get plastered – Plaster Template PDF Resources
- Getting a leg over – Lower limb plaster techniques
- Buddy strap no more – Management of dorsal and volar phalangeal fracture
Vimeo showcase
- Paediatric guide to fracture management
- Plaster, Fibreglass and Splints
- Spaso reductions and immobilisation
Further reading
- The therapeutic clunk
- FARES method (shoulder reduction)
- Spaso technique (shoulder reduction)
- Cunningham method (shoulder reduction)
- Abraham Colles and the Colles fracture (1814)
- Robert William Smith and the Smith fracture (1847)
The great Spaso
Me: “Spaso can I film you doing your shoulder reduction technique and back slabs?”
Spaso: “Why?”
Me: “So I can put it on LITFL and all the new doctors can learn from the videos once they come across from Brexit.”
Spaso: “I don’t do websites, but I do want a video of me doing my technique properly, someone did a video on that ‘you tube’ thingy and they got it wrong.”
Me: “No problem, we’ll set the universe back into its natural order.”
Spaso: “Great, I can then die a happy man.”
Me: “So I’ll email you a time and date…… or phone?”
Spaso: “I don’t do emails or phones.”
Me: “…….umm….. I’ll blow a horn?”
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Dr Neil Long BMBS FACEM FRCEM FRCPC. Emergency Physician at Kelowna hospital, British Columbia. Loves the misery of alpine climbing and working in austere environments (namely tertiary trauma centres). Supporter of FOAMed, lifelong education and trying to find that elusive peak performance.