splint
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She has to wear a pressure garment for 23 hours a day and sleeps in a splint.
From BBC ● May 22, 2026
"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
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
Her leg was wrapped up in some sort of splint.
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
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The most recent work, Berenice Olmedo’s “Amalia,” a motorized sculpture of a leg made from medical prostheses, splints and braces, was created in 2021, a comment on difficulties faced by the disabled.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 1, 2026
The centre was set up around 60 years ago by a Belgian Catholic association and has a workshop for producing prostheses, splints and braces.
From Barron's ● Dec. 21, 2025
A large orbital prosthesis and neck scar splints have been made with the aid of the centre's technology.
From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2025
Kansas guard Johnny Furphy played with no limitations after dealing with shin splints during the preseason.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 6, 2023
We arrived at the hospital midmorning for what should have been a simple procedure, but when the doctors tried to remove the splints they discovered tissue had grown around them.
From "Ugly" by Robert Hoge
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“They were able to put his finger back together and it’s splinted and he’s day-to-day,” Redick said Wednesday.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2026
What he did recall was having his arm splinted in a comfortable position and making plans to have surgery the next day at a hospital in the Chicagoland area unaffiliated with Froedtert South.
From Salon ● Oct. 26, 2022
While our limbs and organs can heal, our public places often remain shattered, splinted back to working order only with the grotesque apparatus of surveillance and security.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 15, 2022
Her legs were never given tourniquets or splinted.
From BBC ● Mar. 6, 2022
Nailer glanced at her hand, saw that her broken fingers were splinted on a bit of driftwood.
From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi
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It was a very interesting nine-month tour of duty in military service, tactical training, and of course the medical aspect of evaluating injuries, administering morphine, splinting and stopping bleeding.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2024
Cross-examining Dr Evans, Mr Myers said: "If you really thought that splinting the diaphragm was a cause of death you would have stated that before today, wouldn't you?"
From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2022
When the records arrived, they showed the splinting that Shah remembered but not the treatment that was driving up his bill.
From Salon ● Oct. 26, 2022
A trauma nurse and a medical doctor were among the group of hikers and Justa said they helped tremendously with splinting, wrapping injuries and taking her vitals, for which he’s grateful.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 24, 2016
He mentions that one stranger had a broken leg and that he had done the neighborly thing by splinting it before sending the men on their way.
From "Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever" by Bill O'Reilly
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