PLASTER CASTS AND SPLINTS IN FRACTURED BONES
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When you get injured casts and splints help to protect the broken bone and injured soft tissues. Doctors manipulate the fracture to align the broken bone and to stabilize they apply cast or splint. They hold the bones in place while they unite. They also help to reduce pain, swelling and muscle spasm. In some instances following surgery splints and casts are applied to immobilize bone or joints. Splints are nothing but “Half casts” and offer less stability than the casts. But splints can be ma...
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