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 ...

Background: Minimally angulated fractures of the distal radius are common in children and have excellent outcomes. We conducted a randomized controlled trial to determine whether the use of a ...

About half of all boys and a quarter of all girls will break an arm or leg before they turn 16, statistics suggest — in many skateboarding, ballplaying families, a fracture is almost expected as the ...

The results of a randomized controlled trial show that the use of a splint was as effective as a cast for recovering physical function in children with wrist fractures. For their study, Kathy Boutis, ...

In children with wrist fractures, a splint is as effective as a cast and provides greater comfort and easier hygiene, a new study finds. In children with wrist fractures, a splint is as effective as a ...

An important patient care skill is the ability to rapidly immobilize a suspected lower extremity fracture. Many lower extremity fractures are particularly emergent, both due to the forces involved in ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - 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 ...