Casts are supportive devices used to help keep an injured bone in place while it heals. Splints, sometimes called half casts, are a less supportive, less restrictive version of a cast. Casts and ...

Plaster casts are just as effective at healing certain types of wrist fractures as surgery, new research suggests. A cast should be used for scaphoid waist fractures in the wrist in the first instance ...

Clunky plaster casts really may be the best way of treating broken bones, a study suggests. Patients who suffer fractures often complain about moulded casts, saying they are uncomfortable and smell.