Casts are supportive devices used to help keep an injured bone in place while it heals. Splints, sometimes called half casts, are a less supportive, less restrictive version of a cast. Casts and ...
A 3D-printed cast concept, more flexible and wearer-friendly than traditional plaster cast for break and fracture patients, is the latest potential application of advanced materials manipulation. The ...
The medical practice of immobilizing fractured limbs with a cast has been around for a long, long time. Researchers uncovered that the earliest known surgical text, “The Edwin Smith Papyrus,” circa ...