While working as an outdoor safety instructor and as rescue technician there were many times I wished for a quicker, easier way to stabilize a severe sprain, strain or fracture and it wasn’t until SAM Splints came along that a way of doing just that became available. When a comfortable, easy to use, reliable method of stabilizing a fracture and reducing the associated pain is needed it doesn’t come any better than a SAM Splint. Even those outside the medical community, when faced with stabilizing an injury to an extremity, can use a SAM Splint effectively. They require little training to use, they are simple to apply and most importantly they are effective. I always carry a SAM Splint in my emergency equipment. It is my method of choice for those infrequent situations when the need to stabilize a fracture is required. In a survival situation the real value of a piece of equipment is not just that it accomplishes what it is designed to do but that it can also be used to solve many other problems faced by those in trouble. I have modified SAM Splints into everything from oil pipe covers to funnels, wind screens and even a frame for a wash basin. I don’t leave home without a SAM Splint in my emergency gear.

Even those outside the medical community, when faced with stabilizing an injury to an extremity, can use a SAM® SPLINT effectively. They require little training to use, they are simple to apply and most importantly they are effective. I always carry one in my emergency equipment. It is my method of choice for those infrequent situations when the need to stabilize a fracture is required.
Peter Kummerfeldt
Renowned Wilderness Survival Expert/Trainer OutdoorSafe.com

For 20 years I have advised medical personnel on what medical gear to take on expeditions. These folks often ask me what I include in my kit, no matter where I'm traveling, no matter how short the trip . . . The answer: a few important medications, some tape and always a SAM® SPLINT. No other device allows for so many variations for treating an unimaginable variety of orthopedic emergencies.
Howard J. Donner, MD
Medical Operations Coordinator, NASA

The SAM® SPLINT is a versatile tool that should be a part of every certified athletic trainer’s field kit.
Ron Porterfield
Athletic Trainer, Tampa Bay Devil Rays

This splint is pure genius...light and compact, yet strong and resilient. I keep one in my pack on every hike up to and back from Everest Base Camp. I won't leave home without it!
Luanne Freer, MD
FACEP President, Wilderness Medical Society; Medical Director, Yellowstone National Park Director, Everest Base Camp Medical Clinic