It is a medical-grade silicone, which is modeled in a similar way to plasticine, can be worn comfortably on the skin and is at the same time very resilient.

This makes it ideal for producing the individual finger cots of the exomotion® hand one.

A few weeks ago, we introduced you to the topic of plasters. On this basis, the next step is to manufacture the finger cots to fit the patient precisely.

In order to prepare and process the HTV silicone, the orthopaedic technician needs, among other things, a silicone roller, paint, modelling tools, exomechanics and a convection oven.

In the first step, the two components of the silicone are mixed together in a silicone roller. The patient’s individually selected color is specially mixed and incorporated into the HTV silicone. Next, the HTV silicone is rolled out to the appropriate thickness and attached to the plaster model of the patient’s hand. The modelling tool can be used to model the HTV silicone on the plaster model. At the same time, the exomechanics are assembled and padded with HTV silicone on the underside so that it does not press on the patient’s hand and it can be connected to the HTV silicone finger cot. In order to cross-link the HTV silicone finger cots with the exomechanics, the whole thing has to be “baked” in the convection oven at the end (the silicone becomes “solid” at high temperatures, hence the name HTV for high-temperature cross-linked).