(HealthDay News) – Use of a long arm cast provides the best restriction of forearm rotation. Using a goniometer developed for the study, Jae Kwang Kim, MD, PhD, of the Ewha Womans Mokdong Hospital in ...

Researchers in Liverpool and Oxford have found that surgery for a common elbow fracture in children offers no clinical ...

NEW YORK – A splint may work just as well as a cast in helping children with non-severe wrist fractures heal, a study published Tuesday suggests. The findings, researchers say, should encourage ...

Children who break a wrist can heal as well in a splint as a cast, a study has discovered. The advantage of a splint is that it can be removed occasionally to wash the arm or let it breathe or scratch ...

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