CHICAGO -- The black Velcro bandage strapped on 3-year-old Ben Crotty's left arm looks like a Rollerblader's wrist guard, but it's really a mini medical milestone. It's today's answer to the cast.

A 3D-printed cast concept, more flexible and wearer-friendly than traditional plaster cast for break and fracture patients, is the latest potential application of advanced materials manipulation. The ...

Casts are supportive devices used to help keep an injured bone in place while it heals. Splints, sometimes called half casts, are a less supportive, less restrictive version of a cast. Casts and ...

His method: instead of lengthy and painstaking work in old-fashioned suturing and splinting (sewing up wounds and applying strips of wood in the bandage like stays in a corset), the wound is ...