Buckle fractures and bow fractures are other types ... If the fractured bone is not badly bent out of alignment, a splint or cast may be all that is needed to treat the break.

Analysing the previous summer’s buckle fractures, over 90% were managed with a cast, repeat x-ray and fracture clinic review. Our practice was outdated – recent studies advocate conservative ...

What Is a Buckle Fracture? A buckle fracture is a type of broken bone. Force put on one end of a bone can make the side of the bone bulge out, or buckle, without breaking the bone all the way through.

Aims and Objectives After reading the FORCE publication our hospital set out to adopt the suggestions of the study and manage torus or ‘buckle’ fractures with the offer of a bandage instead of a wrist ...

Buckle fractures and bow fractures are other types of partial thickness ... Treatment of Greenstick Fractures If the fractured bone is not badly bent out of alignment, a splint or cast may be all that ...