No one plans on a broken arm ... cast for weeks, and it can do a lot of damage in that time. It is best to avoid getting the cast wet if at all possible. The two main types of cast are fiberglass ...

If you need a cast for a broken arm, to mend after knee surgery ... or suck air through the cast with a vacuum cleaner hose. Fiberglass cast. Also called a synthetic cast, it's made of fiberglass ...

Fiberglass casts were first developed ... Their student project “pivoted towards orthopaedic casts” after their co-founder, Peng Mao Yu, fractured his arm while mountaineering.

A neurologist who encased his healthy right arm in a pink fiberglass cast for two weeks has shown ... that a lot of the recovery happens in a very short period of time," she says.

In the overall cohort and in men, there were no significant differences in forearm supination or pronation with the short arm cast, sugar tong splint, or long arm splint. For women, there was a ...

It takes but an ill-fated second to break a bone, and several long weeks for it to heal in a cast. And even if you have one of those newfangled fiberglass ... bags on your arm to take a shower.