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 ...

Removable splints and plaster casts appears to be equally safe and effective for treating minor “buckle” wrist fractures in children, British researchers report in a new review of studies. However, a ...

How Do I Know If I Have a Bone Fracture? Doctors can usually recognize most fractures by examining the injury and taking X-rays. Sometimes an X-ray will not show a fracture. This is especially common ...

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 ...

Most people fully recover from shin splints and avoid developing stress fractures. Stress fractures take longer to heal and may require a brace, a walking boot, and crutches. Shin splints and stress ...

(Medical Xpress)—Among the most common pediatric injuries seen in emergency rooms are fractures that occur when children fall and try to catch themselves with an outstretched hand. For many, that ...

Shin splints are common in athletes—but persistent pain can signal something more serious. Athletic trainer Travis Nolan explains how untreated shin splints can progress into stress fractures, what ...

Shin splints are when you have pain anywhere along your shin bone or tibia. Your tibia is the big bone that starts under your knee and runs down the front of your lower leg. The pain happens where ...

Removable splints and plaster casts appears to be equally safe and effective for treating minor "buckle" wrist fractures in children, researchers report in a new review of studies. However, a US ...