Sarmiento Brace Humeral Fracture Splint for Broken Upper Arm, Breathable Humeral Shaft Fracture Splint (X-Large)

This splint is well made and amazingly comfortable (despite the need for the support in the first place of course). It comes strapped up, and all you need to do is to loosen the straps and slip it over your arm. Once positioned it's quick and easy to tighten in place. The instructions are clear, though it's so self-explanatory you might not even need them!

The person we've been using this for has an old shoulder injury, which is always going to be a problem but which is also aided by using something like this from time to time. So he's got enough experience to say whether something is helping him or not.First-off, this isn't a full immobility-device. Because of that, it protects with a hard-barrier that prevents reinjury or pressure on the joint, but it's not going to protect anyone with a strain that requires not moving the joint.Secondly, we see that the strap is pretty much industry-standard, which means it's perfect for a very thin person or a person being largely inactive, but it's not full enough for an active and larger man, which he is.Third, the standard to which this brace's outer-material is made is a medical-grade-standard, meaning that the brace portion is durable and comfortable and made to be safe for the wearer.However, not everyone has other straps to use with a new brace, the way that he does. I would give this five-stars if it were immobilizing and had a better strap, but it lacks the strap-support and the immobilizing influence that a person with a more active or recent injury would need.Remember that, when an injury occurs, you need medical treatment and a medical-grade-immobilizing-brace first. But, about two to three weeks later, you can use a store-bough brace like this to get you through those last weeks of healing, and this ended up being brilliant once he added a thicker and tighter strap to it, such that he'd recommend it for those later weeks of healing, but the strap it came with was not as good as it should have been.Overall, because the strap wasn't strong enough and thick enough and wide enough to aid in encouraging him to not move his arm, he said this is four-stars, in that it's average for the strap (three-stars) but has a better plastic-housing on that outer-arm covering, which is more like a five-star device.Basically, because he added his own strap, a better strap from another brace that has a flimsy outer-arm covering with a wide and tight strap, he ended up with a five-star brace, and so he can't give this less than four-stars given how easily it became such a great brace. But, because he had to modify it, he can't give it five-stars, even though he modified it into a brace very much like one he got at the hospital (for a lot more money).And, after seeing how this works for him, I agree with him that this is four-stars, really good for the average user who isn't terribly injured, but it would do better with a better strap to make the wearer more likely to not move their arm. A good strap will prevent enough motion to immobilize the arm, so that everything can heal faster, and this was too permissive of movement for him, which is why he modified it. And then, of course, it healed up again, so that he can feel low-level-pain until he uses the shoulder too much again and needs a brace again. To date, his favorite arm-brace was actually from a hospital, for the record, and he was able to make this into a very similar brace by working on it with a better strap system.

I am waiting for shoulder surgery, and am having terrible pain every time I move my arm until that time. I refuse to sleep 24/7 from pain meds, so I had to find a different solution for a few weeks. I saw this humeral brace and thought it might be worth a try. I am so glad I ordered it ! The brace is made of a hard plastic that works well to stabilize my arm and thereby minimize the pain. The brace is impossible for me to put on by myself, but Hubby is able to help me and it only takes about 3 minutes to get it in place. The way it is designed is quite clever. The hard plastic shell goes on the top of the arm. There are 3 long velcro straps that thread through the hard plastic shell, a softer plastic flat side piece, then a bottom of the arm piece, then another side piece and back through the opposite side of the outer shell. You simply adjust the upper (extra long) chest strap through the back D ring, across the upper back and around the chest, through the front D ring, and back over itself then pressing the excess in place back over the chest strap to secure it. The two shorter straps secure the side and bottom flat supports around the arm in the same manner as the chest strap, except that they only encircle the arm. Although no brace is exactly a comfortable item to wear, the support it provides is a welcome relief to me, and this brace is as comfortable as any brace could be. A cotton stockinette tube is included to wear under the brace, but I found it easier to just wear a soft t-shirt with a sleeve to keep the plastic from direct skin contact for comfort. This brace is a lifesaver for me.

Measure your arm and shoulder before getting this. It was too big and I couldn't bend my arm with it on because it went past my elbow. It would probably work for a taller person with a longer arm.

Let's start with saying the humerus can be a challenge to splint or immobilize and have any use of the distal extremity. This product takes a swing at it by using two pieces of formed plastic to work as a splint on either side of the bone to achieve immobilization. But they have to make the straps adjustable to fit different body habitus. I feel like they could have done a better job on the adjustable strap methodology. With this one it's either too loose or too tight and hard to get just right.My big problem with this product as a splint is that it doesn't immobilize the distal extremity so the wearer is going to keep trying to use their lower arm and hand which will encourage twisting of the fracture and cause subsequent discomfort.If I had nothing else to use in an emergency, I'd use it but there's better methods of treatment out there.