splint
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"I've never experienced such terrible pain in my life. I made a splint and crutches out of wood," he writes.
From BBC • May 18, 2026
“We would just pretend to snap for practice, and then for the games they would cut the cast off my wrist and put me in a splint or a brace.”
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 4, 2025
Jones survived the strongest hurricane in Jamaican history while he was injured, wearing a homemade splint on his right leg from a fracture he suffered during a biking accident before Melissa hit.
From BBC • Nov. 2, 2025
Dad immediately diagnosed it as a small fracture, put him in a splint and didn’t charge a co-pay for his services.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 24, 2024
He put a final strip of tape on the injured man’s splint.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
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