1. Starter
On a half sheet of paper, write your name at the top and answer the following questions.
What does immobilization mean?
Have you ever had an injury immobilized?
What types of injuries require immobilization?
Even if you do not know the answer, try and think through each question.

2. Standard 7 Objective 4: Discuss immobilization techniques.
Splinting
Standard 7 Objective 4: Discuss immobilization techniques.

3. Objective 4: Discuss immobilization techniques.
PowerPoint lecture and guided notes
What do we immobilize?
Why do we immobilize?
How do we immobilize?
Explanation and demonstration of different methods of immobilization/splinting.
What items can we use to immobilize?
Splinting Lab

4. What do we immobilize?
Sometimes it is difficult to tell whether an injury is a fracture, dislocation, sprain, or strain.
We should immobilize any injury that has a deformity.
If the athlete has severe pain with any range of motion, they should be immobilized.

6. Why do we immobilize?
You cannot always be sure which injury an athlete may have sustained.
If there is a fracture or dislocation, the structures are not stable. They need to be stabilized!

7. Stabilize only if the athlete needs to be moved
Stabilize only if the athlete needs to be moved. (Almost 100% will need to be moved eventually.)

8. How do we immobilize? The basic principles are:
Splint only if you can do it without causing more pain and discomfort to the victim.
Splint an injury in the position you find it.
Apply the splint so that it immobilizes the fractured bone as well as the joints above and below the fracture.
Check the circulation distal to the injury before and after splinting.
If at all possible, do not move the athlete until they have been splinted.

9. How do we immobilize?
Shoulder injuries should be immobilized with a sling and swathe bandage, with the upper limb bound to the body securely.

10. Head, Neck, or Back Injuries
What signs and symptoms would lead you to immobilize an athlete with a cervical collar and back board?
Unconsciousness
Numbness or tingling in extremities
Neck or back pain on the spine
Mechanism of injury

11. Activate EMS
Do NOT move athlete
If athlete is wearing a helmet, do NOT remove it.
Instruct athlete to stay as still as possible and instruct not to move.
When EMS arrives, they will apply a cervical collar and transport athlete on a backboard.

12. Maintain in-line stabilization
Place hands on both sides of the victims’ head.
Hold the athletes’ head in-line with the spine, if severely angled hold and maintain in the position you found it.
Support this position until EMS personnel arrive.
Maintain airway and breathing.

13. Different Methods of Immobilization
Vacuum Splints
Traction Splints
SAM Splint
Rigid Splint
Soft Splint
Anatomical Splint

14. Splinting Lab Read the directions on the worksheet.
You will need a few ace wraps (grab different sizes, but make sure to share).
You also need to grab a SAM splint.
Move the desks out of your way. Push them against the back wall.
Splint away!

15. Please pair up into groups of 4
Splinting Lab
Please pair up into groups of 4