Back in ancient times, people knew that brokenan arm or leg can recover only if it is completely restful. For immobilization always used tires, immobilizing dressings and plaster. Their timely imposition largely determines the success of treatment. Modern medicine does not stand still, so more and more new methods and technologies appear in the field of orthopedics. For example, gypsum, being one of the oldest materials used in practice, received a new plastic configuration. She perfectly copes with the tasks, while deprived of a number of shortcomings, from which previously could not get rid of.
Who ever broke an arm or leg knows whichinconvenience delivered the old massive plaster. With him, the man was completely deprived of the opportunity to enjoy life. You couldn't even take a bath. And such agony had to endure depending on the severity of the injury from several months to a year. Such a situation led to the fact that gypsum-containing materials began to get rid of themselves. Synthetic polymer bandages are coming to replace them today. Plastic gypsum for fractures relieves the patient of feelings of inferiority. The patient feels it as a simple dressing, providing the position necessary for the accretion of the bone.
Synthetic polymeric bandages are of several types: scotch tape, softkast, NM-caste, turbokast. Each of them has its own scope, as well as advantages and disadvantages.
Scotchkast has the best weightcharacteristics. Plastic plaster on the foot of this material will practically not be felt. An important quality is that it provides air access to the limb. In order to apply a cast of plaster tape, no sophisticated equipment is required. The material does not even shrink when frozen. Especially he will have to "taste" fans to paint and "tune" your plaster, as it is available in various colors.
Softkast acts as a kind of addition toscotch tape It is an elastic material used more often during sprains and in the postoperative period. It is convenient because when the swelling appears, it can stretch and take on new forms. For fractures, plastic gypsum made of scotch tape is wrapped around it.
NM-caste is a synthetic mesh withlarge cells. It is very light, can be superimposed and removed. All manipulations with it are best done with rubber gloves, as it dries very strongly on the skin when it dries. NM cast can also be used only with a special synthetic stocking. Most often it is used as a plastic plaster on the arm.
The most common material used intraumatology, gradually becomes turbokast. This material has impressive strength. When heated above 40 degrees, it becomes plastic, which allows, without any difficulties, to impose it directly on the damaged surface. The absence of a cotton stocking means that you can safely take a bath. Another amazing feature that this plastic plaster has is its working memory. Thanks to it, the material can take on its original shape if it is reheated, which allows the turbo caste to be used many times.
In order to understand whether to useplastic gypsum, it is necessary to conduct a comparative description and summarize all its advantages. The main achievement of synthetic polymeric materials is that they simultaneously possess such properties as lightness and strength. Turbokast, for example, surpasses the traditional plaster cuff in both of these characteristics.
Все, кто хоть раз ломал ногу, должны помнить the appearance of an unpleasant itch under a thick white crust, under which you can not climb. Plastic medical plaster is devoid of this disadvantage, since it has a porous structure and freely passes air.
It used to be very difficult to get out with a broken legfor a walk in the cold season. A lot of socks were put on the plaster, but this did not help much. Plastic plaster, the photo of which is presented below, allows you to wear shoes with greater comfort and feel like a full-fledged person.
В старые добрые времена после того как кость fused together, the patient faced an unpleasant procedure for removing the cuff. Gypsum for a long time almost fused with the skin, and therefore remove it was not easy. Synthetic materials have a smooth texture of the outer layer, and therefore the gypsum made from them is easily removed.
With so many advantages, it seemsthat there should be no flaws at all. To some extent this is true, but still it is necessary to note the high cost of the procedure. In addition, not every clinic practice such methods of treatment.
Depending on what materialgypsum is made, it can be superimposed in different ways. If it is scotchkast, softkast or NM-castes, then their use requires special stockings that serve as an interlayer between the skin and the outer corset.
Turbokastplastic plaster. Today it is gaining increasing popularity. This is largely due to the ease of its imposition. All that is required for this is to heat it to a temperature of 60 degrees so that it becomes plastic, then let it cool to 35-40 degrees and apply it on the damaged surface. This technology allows to achieve full compliance with the gypsum contours and body surface.
At home, remove the plastic plaster unlikelywhether to turn out. You can carry out such manipulations only with softcast. As for all other synthetic materials, they are removed with the help of a special tool called the tibial syndesmosis. Outwardly, it is very similar to the grinder, which causes panic in patients. There is really nothing terrible - the working surface of the instrument does not rotate, but only slightly vibrates, therefore it cannot cause harm.
If you compare the rates for gypsum-containing andsynthetic materials, then in the win, of course, remain the first. Ordinary cuff can be applied at any clinic absolutely free of charge, while new technologies will have to be paid for. Prices for services for the imposition of gypsum from a turboplast look like this: 11,000 rubles per leg and 9,000 per arm.
In conclusion, it should be noted thatThe use of synthetic materials in traumatology avoids complications in 90% of cases. This technology has a future, but at the moment it is not very common due to the novelty, as well as the high price of services for the imposition of plastic gypsum.
At the same time, patients who have tried this technique unanimously declare that it is very convenient. Other things being equal, ordinary gypsum does not stand up to any competition.
