Traditional casts are heavy, immovable, and prone to wearing down the skin. Castomize’s new lightweight alternative seeks to ...

Background: Up to 30% of patients suffer from long-term functional restrictions following conservative treatment of distal radius fractures. Whether duration of cast immobilisation influences ...

Healing of the fracture progresses with less disturbance after surgery than in a plaster cast, and the joints and muscles can be exercised again a short time after the operation. The indirect ...

Buildings, artworks, and everyday objects have been uncovered fully intact. Plaster casts of the impressions left by Pompeiians trapped under the ash illustrate the human impact in sobering detail.

These plaster casts are remarkably detailed - showing the folds of togas and even the pained expressions of the victims. These casts have, naturally, been a big draw for dark tourists over the ...

Some inauthentic pieces, such as plaster casts of real artifacts, are used for educational purposes, Brody said. Pointing to other examples of ambiguity in the YUAG’s collection, Brody highlighted a ...

So it was that in times to come every bourgeois home in France ‘had its plaster Napoleon’, as Alain Corbin writes in this brief but highly original book. The proliferation of such casts was a feature ...

Paul Fifield: ‘One of the firefighters arrived brandishing a camera.’Photograph: Mark Chilvers ...

Narrative reviews, case reports and cadaveric analyses were excluded. Additional exclusion criteria were reported medial ankle involvement, fractures or other concomitant injuries/pathology and CAI.

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