The walking heel provides a small contact patch for the Orthopedic cast and creates a fluid rocking motion during the stride as the Orthopedic cast can pivot easily in any direction.
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17 Facts About Orthopedic cast
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Ordinarily, a leg Orthopedic cast applied for the treatment of a stable ankle fracture would not use the toeplate design because there is no need to immobilize and limit the motion of the patient's toes.
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An EDF Orthopedic cast is used for the treatment of Infantile Idiopathic scoliosis.
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Mobility is severely restricted by the hip spica Orthopedic cast and walking without crutches or a walker is impossible because the hips cannot bend.
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The Minerva Orthopedic cast includes the trunk of the body as well as the patient's head, with openings provided for the patient's face, ears, and usually the top of the head and hair.
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The Risser Orthopedic cast was similar, extending from the patient's hips to the neck and sometimes including part of the head.
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However, in some cases the Risser Orthopedic cast would extend into one or more pantaloons, in which case mobility was far more restricted.
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For example, from the 1910s to the 1970s, use of a turnbuckle Orthopedic cast, which used metal turnbuckles to twist two halves of the Orthopedic cast so as to forcibly straighten the spine before surgery was common.
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The turnbuckle Orthopedic cast had no single configuration, and could be as small as a body jacket split in half, or could include the head, one or both legs to the knees or feet, or one arm to the elbow or wrist.
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The popular and media-driven conception of a massive Orthopedic cast encasing all four limbs, the trunk, and the head – sometimes leaving only small slits for the eyes, nose, and mouth – is a true rarity in recorded medical history, and this type of large scale Orthopedic cast appears more commonly in various Hollywood movies and on television shows.
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The waterproof Orthopedic cast cover stays tightly around the Orthopedic cast and prevents water from ever reaching it while the patient is in contact with water.
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Casts are typically removed by perforation using a Orthopedic cast saw, an oscillating saw designed to cut rigid material such as plaster or fiberglass while not harming soft tissue.
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The innovation of the modern Orthopedic cast can be traced to, among others, four military surgeons, Dominique Jean Larrey, Louis Seutin, Antonius Mathijsen, and Nikolai Ivanovich Pirogov.
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Orthopedic cast first studied medicine with his uncle, a surgeon in Toulouse.
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Orthopedic cast noted that gypsum plaster was moulded around the patient's leg to cause immobilization.
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Orthopedic cast was educated in Brussels, Maastricht and Utrecht obtaining the degree of doctor of medicine at Gissen in 1837.
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Orthopedic cast spent his entire career as a medical officer in the Dutch Army.
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