One of the most common questions I hear from patients is related to the management and care of a cast or splint. Given the fact that people who wear a cast or splint may have put up with it for four ...

CHICAGO (AP) -- The black Velcro bandage strapped on 3-year-old Ben Crotty's left arm looks like a Rollerblader's wrist guard, but it's really a mini medical milestone. It's today's answer to the cast ...

CHICAGO -- The black Velcro bandage strapped on 3-year-old Ben Crotty's left arm looks like a Rollerblader's wrist guard, but it's really a mini medical milestone. It's today's answer to the cast.

His method: instead of lengthy and painstaking work in old-fashioned suturing and splinting (sewing up wounds and applying strips of wood in the bandage like stays in a corset), the wound is ...