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Use adhesive tape to secure the splint further. This tape or other outer adhesive wrapping material covers the entire splint and must be applied to the skin to some extent to prevent slippage cranially and caudally. (See next photo.)

General indications for the use of newspaper splints 

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Part five of this step-by-step veterinary pictorial tutorial shows how to use newspaper to make spica, meta and back splints.

Splint application: Step 5

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