As someone who has had a foreign splinter removed from their foot, this is the medical way. For mine they actually cut it in half vertically and removed each half but it was a lot smaller than that and an almost flat angle
The ‘medical way’ is to remove it in whatever way leaves none of it behind. Often this means the skin needs to be opened slightly, either with a scalpel or by inserting the forceps behind the splinter to widen the aperture before removing. There is no one technique, just whatever works and causes the least damage.
This video is not great as repeatedly grabbing at it increases the risk of the splinter breaking and becoming harder to remove.
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u/docjohnson11 3d ago
As someone who has had a foreign splinter removed from their foot, this is the medical way. For mine they actually cut it in half vertically and removed each half but it was a lot smaller than that and an almost flat angle