A buckle fracture is a stable fracture where there is a dorsal cortex compression of the distal radius. A total of 117 children with buckle fracture treated at our institution were randomised prospectively into two treatment groups: soft cast or rigid cast. The rigid cast group attended clinic after three weeks for removal of the cast. In the soft cast group, the cast was removed by parents at ...

UNLABELLED BACKGROUND Total contact casting is regarded as the gold standard treatment for plantar foot ulcers. Load transfer from the plantar surface of the foot to the walls of the total contact cast has previously been assessed indirectly. The aim of this proof of concept study was to determine the feasibility of a new method to directly measure the load between the cast wall and the lowe...

Aim: To assess the physical and mechanical properties of plaster of Paris (POP) bandage cast used as a splinting and casting materials. Materials and Methods: POP casts were divided into three Groups A, B and C with 2, 3 and 8 layer for POP bandage, respectively (n=6 in each group). Handling characters, technical easiness or difficulties, setting time, weight, diameter and thickness of the cast...

A prospective study was undertaken of fifty-one patients who were randomly assigned to treatment with either a long or a short thumb-spica cast for a non-displaced fracture of the carpal scaphoid. The duration of follow-up was at least until union; the average follow-up was twelve months. Twenty-eight fractures were treated with a long thumb-spica cast and twenty-three, with a short thumb-spica...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to investigate the marginal precision of computer numeric control-milled frameworks fabricated of grade 4 commercially pure titanium or cobalt-chrome alloy through digital technology and to compare them with conventional cast frameworks. MATERIAL AND METHODS A titanium cast of a mandibular arch with six implant analogs was used as a master. The master cas...

N europathic plantar ulcers are classical lesions secondary to diabetic polyneuropathy (1,2). The worldwide gold standard treatment is the nonremovable off-loading cast (3–5). However, the device is not widely used due to concerns related to risk factors of the off-loading cast (i.e., joint rigidity, additional ulcer formation beneath the cast, and infection of the ulcer enclosed in the cast). ...

Signature learning from gene expression consists into selecting a subset of molecular markers which best correlate with prognosis. It can be cast as a feature selection problem. Here we use as optimality criterion the separation between survival curves of clusters induced by the selected features. We address some important problems in this fields such as developing an unbiased search procedure ...

BACKGROUND A fiberglass short arm cast can be used to treat a distal radial fracture, but posttraumatic edema may lead to excessive cast tightness and resultant soft-tissue injury. We sought to quantify a simulated edema-induced pressure within a fiberglass short arm cast and to determine the effectiveness of different cast-cutting methods for pressure reduction. We hypothesized that cast cutti...

We assessed the unloading effect of the patellar tendon-bearing (PTB) cast in five healthy volunteers using a new system for analysis of dynamic plantar pressure. We devised a method to improve the unloading effect of the PTB cast, and tested this using the same system. Our findings showed that the conventional PTB cast only achieved unloading of 30% of the body-weight and that the part of the ...

1 Overview Motion perception is an amazing innate ability of the creatures on the planet. This adroitness entails a functional advantage that enables species to compete better in the wild. The motion perception ability is usually employed at different levels, allowing from the simplest interaction with the 'physis' up to the most transcendental survival tasks. Among the five classical perceptio...