Abstract: Managing top-level athlete's recovery after an injury is very complicated because it requires a challenging combination of clinical and social/professional aspects with the need to return as soon as possible to sports play. Herein, we report a top-level volleyball player for whom a finger splint combined with a custom made thermoplastic protection was used for the conservative management of a Mallet fracture re-injury. This way our player continued training and competitions in contrast to conventional rehabilitation protocols which suggest to avoid new traumas until the healing phase is completed. After 8 weeks, we obtained the fracture healing and a complete functional recovery without major medical complications. From our results we suggest that novel treatment strategies or modification of conventional rehabilitation protocols are worth consideration for the management of high-level sports players'injuries. However new clinical studies with a larger sample can compare these results to those resulting from both surgical procedures, and from immobilization and rest as well. Correspondence: Daniele Checcarelli, Department of Rehabilitation, Foligno Hospital, Via Arcamone - 06034 Foligno (PG) - Italy. Tel +390742339840, Fax +390742339816. Email daniele.checcarelli@libero.it No funding was received for this manuscript. Copyright © 2018 Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. All rights reserved.
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