Hopkins Study says single leg cast works just as well as a spica cast

De-Cast the Kids, Says Hopkins Study (Biloine Young @ OTW)
new study from Johns Hopkins Children’s Center challenges the longstanding practice of casting both legs in small children who have hip or thigh fractures. A study of 52 patients, ages two through six, found that the children healed just as well in single-leg casts as did those with both legs in casts and experienced far greater comfort and mobility. The study is published in the June 13 online issue of The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery.
For a long time doctors thought that casting both legs and hips was the only way to assure prop...