• Question: i broke my finger and i was in a cast for 2 weeks do you think it would be possible to create a glove to were you just walk in and put it on

    Asked by 363heam32 to Eoin, Fiona, Ivor, Karl, Pattie on 1 Mar 2018.
    • Photo: Eoin McEvoy

      Eoin McEvoy answered on 1 Mar 2018:

      Plaster casts are used as the material is so cheap and hardens well to keep the broken bones constrained. Plaster gloves could be developed, that when wetted they would set and hold shape, but it would be a little more expensive.

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