What is the purpose of a cast?!


Question: What is the purpose of a cast.?
When you brake a hand, or an arm, or a leg, what exactly does a cast do.? Does it help the broken bone heal faster, or does it just ease the pain.?Health Question & Answer


Answers:
To prevent the bone from moving and to protect it from being hit and also to make sure the bone heals properly.

It depends. To get an arm one put on depends it can can up to 10 Min's if it's at an angle or take as less as 5 Min's. A full leg cast will usually take about 10-15 Min's to do and just a semi le cast will usually take about 5-10 Min's to do.Health Question & Answer

It is there to keep the bone straight and unmoving until it can heal.I believe they stay on about 6 weeks.Health Question & Answer

It prevents the fractured bone from moving...Health Question & Answer



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