BraceAbility Sarmiento Brace - Humeral Shaft Fracture Splint Cast for Broken Upper Arm, Shoulder, Bicep and Humerus Bone with Stockinette Support (Medium)

Okay a few reviewers are dreaming. So, I have7+ fractures in my upper numerous. Worse pain ever. One break all through and out of alignment, rest smaller fragrements in one area. I have a transplant and COVID is the worse ever in states (11/20). Ortho doesn’t want me anywhere in hospital many days so now in splint. Accident 22 days ago. Not sure what their expectations are but I’m pleased and feel more comfortable! People need to remember you can’t cast that high and in our difficult times, sometimes we need to go different routes. My doc is thrilled. I know bones are aligning. And if we keep safe a bit longer we’ll have vaccines. Embtace being safe and how our new world grows% using both sleeves and have polar fleece to switch out. Planning to be better for A wonderful ringing in of 2021!,

I am not a hulk but this is made for one. I can’t even bend my elbow in this!

I needed this for my 78 year old mother who fell and broke the Humerus bone. The sleeves that came with it were too tight for her arms so the hospital made one out of a sock. Overall it doesn’t seem to bother her.

This is the second brace I've tried for my humerus that broke midshaft a couple of weeks ago, acquired at the recommendation of my orthopedic doctor after he was unsatisfied with the results of the brace that his office put on previously. Compared with the other brace I've used, I see several pros and cons of each compared to the other. Pros of this one: Most importantly, this one seems so far to be holding my humerus in place better than the first one did, though I haven't had x-rays again yet since I got this one to confirm that the alignment is better. It certainly feels significantly more secure, though, and wearing this was the first time in 2 weeks that I've been able to let my forearm hang down for a bit without extreme pain (though it still feels better to also use a sling for now.) The shoulder piece and chest strap on this one help to support the weight of the brace and the upper arm from the shoulder. The other brace I used was just around the upper arm itself, so the weight of the brace was just hanging on the (broken) upper arm. This one supporting its own weight is definitely appreciated. Cons of this one: This thing is a real pain to put on properly, especially by yourself. As a single guy who lives alone, that's pretty inconvenient, and I'm more easily able to do it than many would be. Most of the cons of this brace relate to this: Due to the length of the velco straps, they actually attach mostly on the back side of the arm, making it quite a pain to reach with your opposite arm. The loops that the straps run through are (thankfully) on the front side of the arm, but the straps are quite long, so the velco actually attaches mostly on the back. Tightening the straps is also a pain to do by yourself with one hand (which is, of course, all you have available, since the brace is on the other arm... and that arm is broken.) Pulling sufficient tension on the straps and then holding it while wrapping them back underneath your (broken) arm to attach the velco is easier said than done. The four plastic plates of the brace also tend to shift around on the velcro as you're tightening it due to the large amount of friction between your arms and the plates while the straps are tensioned. In short, getting all of the plates placed correctly around your upper arm while tightening the straps using only one hand is no easy feat. Granted, it's somewhat easier after the first time once you get the plates in the approximately correct position, but you still have to control for their tendency to shift around. The other brace I used had a far superior solution to this problem. It used laces that were all wrapped through a ratcheting mechanism attached to a knob. So literally all you had to do to tighten it was to lock the ratchet, then twist the knob until it was tight enough. Then, to release the tension, you just released the lock on the ratchet mechanism by pulling the knob outwards. Obviously, that's far, far easier to do when you only have one hand available. Other cons: The sizing on these is only by upper arm diameter. In my case, the vertical room allotted for the shoulder is a bit tight. Even with the inner piece all the way up against my armpit, the shoulder mold on the outer piece doesn't really reach the top of my shoulder well. On the flip side, I have pretty long arms (6' tall man here) and the inner piece is just about the right size for me, so I can definitely understand the reviews from women who said it was far too long for them. I wouldn't want it to be shorter for my arm length, though, as it would then provide inadequate support to my humerus, so providing no options for different arm lengths is problematic, especially since upper arm diameter is only moderately correlated with upper arm length (it's more correlated to arm muscle and/or fat mass than arm length.) Per the manufacturer's website, these are not water safe, so should not be worn in the shower. The other brace I had was water safe, so could be worn in the shower, though drying it out sufficiently afterwards did require briefly removing it. Having a brace on while showering did help to keep my arm more stable when showering. I may still just put the old brace on when I shower. Additionally, though, this brace not being water safe means you have to deal with the above-mentioned pain of a process to get this brace back on each time you shower, which you'll likely want to do more than the once every 3 days they recommending cleaning the brace. Overall thoughts: Overall, I still prefer this brace over the other one on the whole simply because it seems so far to do a better job of performing its primary function - stabilizing my broken humerus - while also not putting its weight on said broken humerus. But it would definitely be nice to see a new brace that combined the stability of this brace with the much easier ratcheting mechanism (and, ideally, water-safe materials) of the other one.

This appears to be a well-made brace. My husband has a non-union of the humerus, which occurred after a fall. The top strap on the brace is held by a grommet, and the strap tends to swivel and not stay in the correct place. This is unfortunate, because the rest of the design is very good. We did have to return the brace because of this issue. The seller was very understanding and cooperative.

Size was too large even though i bought a small and if it isnt exactly right the plastic is so sharp and hard its painful.

When I broke my arm more than 13 weeks ago, this was given to me by the orthopedist, and was not purchased on Amazon. However after living with it for as long as I have, I feel more than qualified to comment on its functionality. It lacks sufficient padding. Yes, a "stockinette" is to be worn underneath, but it is shorter than the brace--meaning the hard edges of the brace rest on the inside of my elbow creating pressure sores. Cool. I ordered additional stockinettes--guess what? The new ones were shorter than the two original ones!! I'm left with trying to place cotton batting to pad pressure spots--difficult and awkward, and the cotton sometimes falls out. I think I read somewhere in the instructions that it can be trimmed and made shorter, but WITH WHAT? SCISSORS? A KNIFE? SAW? Yup, I'll just go get my trusty saw and with my one, non-dominant hand, just trim it right down. Next, an injured person cannot apply this brace by him or herself, AND, it matters who puts it on and tightens it. Living alone, I discovered that one friend had pinched skin between two of the plastic sections on the back side--after being in agony for twenty four hours, another adept friend saved me from gangrene (literally. I'm not kidding.) by repositioning it. Now, I'm very particular as to who touches this thing, and this friend graciously takes it off, replaces the stockinette and re-wraps this monstrosity twice a week, but it would be better if I could do it myself. Which brings me to the ridiculously complicated design. This is four, count 'em, four pieces of plastic--two are hard shell and two soft. The two soft pieces are supposed to fit under the hard pieces, but this is easier said than done when trying to put it back on. The softer piece over my bicep kept popping out. I tried tying a wide ribbon in between the velcro straps, with limited success. Then the four pieces keep shifting as you are trying to wrap the velcro straps which keep sticking to each other and as you pull the straps apart, the four pieces of the brace shift out of position again. The bigger problem is here is there seems to be no other alternative to this really annoying device. A materials company in Europe has designed a single piece, nicely padded humeral brace, but that does not seem available. The medical community only wants to wheel you into the operating room, and the manufacturer really has no incentive to make something better.