Saebo Flex

I took delivery of my Saebo Flex finally last week, and have had some mixed experiences with it so far. The initially fitting of it seemed to suggest my arm had inflated considerable since my last measurement only a month or so before. I found this a little hard to believe, but the measurements seemed to bear it out. Maybe the few months going to the gym had an amazing effect on my muscles in that arm. I doubt it.

Anyway, fitting round #2 seemed to fit correctly, this time with Glyn again... I will say however, that at random, I struggle to fit the splint on my arm. So maybe I am just prone to swelling and heat/stress/etc. might play some part in that, who knows.

Getting the splint on isn't as hard as I was expecting if I'm honest, I was anticipating hours of yanking, screaming and general frustration that springs wouldn't fit in places and velcro would get glued to everything. Whilst a lot of this does happen, it's not as bad as you'd imagine. The hardest things to do are connecting the main spring, once the fingers are in their finger cups (I have no idea if there's a technical term for this - the book might say) as you have to yank against the tightness of the fingers and the rigidity of the spring to hook it on.

My biggest *hmm* about the splint is the position of the fingers - it's variable as to how well aligned you'll get them, depending on where the splint is on the arm and swelling etc. but typically my fingers end up pulling in the direction of my thumb and looking a bit like a bunch of bananas. This is quite painful, and would probably be even more painful if I didn't have hypermobile joints, so the visual is a rather uncomfortable image of my fingers bending awkwardly at a joint which shouldn't really bend that way. It's possible this is largely to do with the fact I am hypermobile and might be ok for a normally jointed person. The second problem is the pinching between the finger cup things and the hand plate. This will probably get better with time but currently the skin feels bunched and trapped between these two plates.