Bivalve Leg Cast

It covers each legs perhaps one simply partially the waist and a part of the stomach.

Bivalve leg cast. The weight of a plaster bivalve tends to be intolerable especially to a patient already handicapped by muscle weakness and may mean the difference between walking and sitting between patient acceptance and rejection. A bi-valved cast for immobilizing broken limbs in which complementary rigid shells each having an inflatable liner are releasably secured together about the limb or other body portion to be. Apply a strip of cast padding from the dorsal surface of the metacarpusmetatarsus through each interdigital space to the palmarplantar surface of the metacarpusmetatarsus.

Padding underneath the cast consists of layers that are wound tightly around the leg starting from the distal to proximal aspects of the leg. Splints are bivalve casts that provide immobilization and allow for edema. Mold in the transverse and longitudinal arches of the foot and around the malleoli and mold a posterior bulge for the Achilles tendon.

Place hardened cast between upright struts of walker boot. Two complete splits in the cast convert it to a bivalve for crush injuries open fractures and fractures with overlying burns. A bandage cast consisting of a bandage with a rigid structure and sometime a bivalve cast overtop that can be removed for the treatment of wounds allows for a horse to be in their home environment avoiding the need for expensive hospitalization while providing semi rigid support to the limb and joint affected.

Bivalve cast splits Lower limb casts. What are casts and back slabs. Body casts encase the trunk of the body.

Above knee casts are usually applied with about 30 degrees of knee flexion. Gent proceeded to put a short leg fiberglass cast on my left leg. The cast is secured from the inside at the top and bottom so if the tape starts to peel the cast should not fall apart.

Several layers will be. Pelvis hip or thigh fractures. The cast will be applied according to our Standard of Care casting.