I have basal osteo arthritis with a small bone spur. The hand specialist told me to look up the lrti surgery on the net as I was a canadate for the surgery. But he told me to wear a thumb splint first. And I was suffled out of the office. My question is why the thumb splint if I have bone on bone. To me it's just putting a bandage over it. Its located on my dominate hand so it's not solving the problem. I'm so frustrated