The spica cast and traction tables are used in femurs, calf-bone and tibia-bone fractures during surgeries of the patients of road accidents and other incidents.

If your child is in a spica (body) cast, it can pose a series of challenges both for you and your youngster. You may have some questions, like: ...

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Traction Followed by Spica Casting. In school-aged children, acceptable closed reduction without excessive shortening may be difficult to attain or maintain in an immediate spica cast.

WEEKEND EDITION: Oct. 19, 2002. When 6-month-old Joshua had to undergo recent back surgery that put him in a full body cast called a spica for three months, his mother, Paula, did not know how she ...

After five years of minimal traction, the five member of K-pop girl group Spica opted to disband. By Tamar Herman Days away from their fifth anniversary, K-pop girl group SPICA is calling it a day ...

For young children with diaphyseal femoral fractures, treatment with a single-leg spica cast is safe and effective, and facilitates patient care and function compared with double-leg spica casting.

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--For decades, the treatment for a young child with a broken femur has been the same: a surgically placed spica cast, commonly known as a body cast. But now, thanks to ...

The Spica cast goes from chest to knees, leaving the child in something like a squatting position with widely spread knees. So it's hard for that child to just sit.

Andras and colleagues randomly assigned 63 pediatric patients aged 6 months to 5 years with diaphyseal femur fractures to receive either a traditional, surgically placed spica cast (n=29) or a pre ...