The orthopedic resident told me to put a “thumb spica cast” on the guy’s hand and have him follow up in the clinic. As a brand new surgical intern, I had no idea what a thumb spica cast was ...

The spica cast immobilizes your thumb by wrapping around your forearm and thumb. Surgical treatments. If there’s been a lot of displacement of your bone fragments, ...

Ortho Dx: A Painful, Swollen Thumb Following a Football Injury. ... Bennett fractures that are minimally displaced are treated with immobilization in a thumb spica cast for 6 weeks.

"About ten years ago, Kettering and McLaren did testing to show which car seat was the safest to transport kids with hip spica cast, but we found out that car seat has since been off the market ...