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What is casting and splinting?
Casting and splinting are the common non-surgical treatment options for bone and soft tissue injuries (muscles, tendons, ligaments).
What does casting or splinting do?
When you break a bone, your doctor first aligns the fractured pieces together in the appropriate position, and then your therapist applies a cast or a splint in order to hold the bones in place while your fracture heals.
Casting and splinting helps to stabilise fractures and reduce pain, swelling, and muscle spasm.
- Casting is the most effective way to immobilise skeletal fractures. Skeletal fractures normally require around six weeks of immobilisation.
- Splinting is a highly effective way of immobilising tissues or joints (hand, wrist, foot or ankle) when some movement or flexibility is required for optimum healing.
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