I had no proper paste-board for making splints... so.
Clowes had ideas on ambulance work, and remarks that scabbards make excellent splints.
Then there was nothing with which to make splints.
Most of his patients had broken bones and two men were breaking up a pew to make splints.
We'll break one of these wooden chairs and make splints from the rungs.
We lay on the beach all that night because we could hear the houses crashing in the town, and Robertson made splints for my arm.
Out there on the prairie there wasn't much to make splints with, and Pa was bad hurt.
Saunders prusiked down the rope and made splints from pieces of sleeping mat, while the others summoned Bonington.
Fortescue and Hardy had made makeshift splints for his ankle, but apparently he found it uncomfortable to walk, even with the blast-rifle crutch.
Physical and occupational therapists can make custom-fit splints from lightweight materials that may be more comfortable to wear.