Broke a bone and need a cast? Well, forget those big, heavy casts that your friends could write on. Dr. Tom Miller speaks with Dr. Bruce Thomas, an orthopedic surgeon, to discuss how physicians now ...

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 ...

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 ...

The inspiration for a new high-tech, 3D alternative to traditional plaster and fiberglass casts and splints — available regionally only at Jacksonville Orthopaedic Institute — was a young Colorado boy ...

A growing number of adults will need a cast for a broken bone at least once in their lifetime. Fiberglass casts—the most common type used—hold the bone in place, but they come with a host of ...

A study led by University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust has found that plaster casts are just as effective at healing scaphoid waist fractures in the wrist as surgery. The SWIFFT trial, funded by ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . CHICAGO — Results presented at the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Annual Meeting showed variations in ...

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 ...

Orthopedic casts were first developed in the 1850s, but their aesthetics didn't change much for 160 years. Fiberglass replaced plaster in the 1970s, waterproofing arrived in the '90s, but ugliness ...