LONG ARM CAST APPLICATION

This is my technique for applying a long arm cast. Cast is applied with patient lying down and using an assistant to hold the patient's arm to help with gravity traction and keep the patient from moving the arm around while the cast is applied. Especially useful when casting children

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Education

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• Cast
• application

[runningdogagility]

Hi there, I've used the polyester before and like the material also, unfortunately our clinic only uses the fiberglass tape because the polyester material is too expensive for our clinic manager to order. I'll use more or less rolls on a person depending upon the diameter and length of their individual arm.

[peace3159]

DO you take the cast off the person then? The person in the videos or what?

[runningdogagility]

@peace3159

Not quite sure about your question. I took the cast off my co-worker after we finished shooting the video.

[janhan69]

try to use pretape on top of the padding and the surface will become really smooth. Its also more easy to remove the cast later on. Fiberglass is nice but polyester is also great and you will only need two rolls of 3 inch. evenso for the fiberglass application.

[baconskateboards14]

My doctor is an idiot she made mine an inch right above my elbow and she did not put any padding

[bordercolliehome]

:>))) I had several boxes of different colors on my table and just happened to grab a different color for the 2nd roll of fiberglass. :>)

Gail

[gipsgina]

beautiful video. but why you use different colours for the underarm and elbow cast?