RE: Idea for Soaking Casts

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We had the bobbles on his casts and u r right they do work better!!!

Bri

Kathy Bruce wrote:

I don't know if anyone else has heard of this or tried this before but

although our son is now in the boots and bars, when we started treatment at our

first hospital they used to make the end of the plaster bandage into a bobble

(lump) this meant when we came to soak them off it really woulds only take us

about 5 minutes soaking time followed by an unravelling of the bandage.

(Unfortunately if the bandage broke it would be a real nightmare getting them

off after this)

When we changed hospitals as the treatment wasn't getting the correction we

needed they didn't use lumps. (Wierd thing is is that our current hospital

trained the people who we used to see!) It always took so much longer getting

his casts off when the bobbles we'ren't used.

I really don't know if the plaster at the first hospital was different from

our current one but since they were trained by our current hospital I can't

imagine they would use different materials.

It might be worth asking about having the ends made into lumps to help

removal. If you do it's worth me mentioning that lumps on the outside used to

dig in to me when I was breastfeeding Ethan. We found lumps on the inside of his

legs were probably the best and the lumps definately had to be big enough to get

a grip on to start the unravelling of the plaster bandages.

Hope this is of some use.

Kathy and Ethan (mitchells 23/24 - for three more days, yippee, then it's

20/24!)

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Hi Kathy,

We had that but it still took me ages of soaking and

pulling to get it off...

with (3y)

and Alister (3y, RCF, Ponseti method, UK)

--- Kathy Bruce wrote:

> I don't know if anyone else has heard of this or

> tried this before but although our son is now in the

> boots and bars, when we started treatment at our

> first hospital they used to make the end of the

> plaster bandage into a bobble (lump) this meant when

> we came to soak them off it really woulds only take

> us about 5 minutes soaking time followed by an

> unravelling of the bandage. (Unfortunately if the

> bandage broke it would be a real nightmare getting

> them off after this)

>

> When we changed hospitals as the treatment wasn't

> getting the correction we needed they didn't use

> lumps. (Wierd thing is is that our current hospital

> trained the people who we used to see!) It always

> took so much longer getting his casts off when the

> bobbles we'ren't used.

>

> I really don't know if the plaster at the first

> hospital was different from our current one but

> since they were trained by our current hospital I

> can't imagine they would use different materials.

>

> It might be worth asking about having the ends

> made into lumps to help removal. If you do it's

> worth me mentioning that lumps on the outside used

> to dig in to me when I was breastfeeding Ethan. We

> found lumps on the inside of his legs were probably

> the best and the lumps definately had to be big

> enough to get a grip on to start the unravelling of

> the plaster bandages.

>

> Hope this is of some use.

>

> Kathy and Ethan (mitchells 23/24 - for three more

> days, yippee, then it's 20/24!)

>

>

>

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Hello,

At our first casting last week, the doctor took a piece of the red plastic

packaging that the plaster roll came in and wrapped the plaster around it a

couple of times with the red part showing on the ends. This way we can find

the edge of the plaster roll to peel it off. Is this similar to what the

bobble thing is?

Halley

Re: Idea for Soaking Casts

We had the bobbles on his casts and u r right they do work better!!!

Bri

Kathy Bruce wrote:

I don't know if anyone else has heard of this or tried this before but

although our son is now in the boots and bars, when we started treatment at

our first hospital they used to make the end of the plaster bandage into a

bobble (lump) this meant when we came to soak them off it really woulds only

take us about 5 minutes soaking time followed by an unravelling of the

bandage. (Unfortunately if the bandage broke it would be a real nightmare

getting them off after this)

When we changed hospitals as the treatment wasn't getting the correction

we needed they didn't use lumps. (Wierd thing is is that our current

hospital trained the people who we used to see!) It always took so much

longer getting his casts off when the bobbles we'ren't used.

I really don't know if the plaster at the first hospital was different

from our current one but since they were trained by our current hospital I

can't imagine they would use different materials.

It might be worth asking about having the ends made into lumps to help

removal. If you do it's worth me mentioning that lumps on the outside used

to dig in to me when I was breastfeeding Ethan. We found lumps on the inside

of his legs were probably the best and the lumps definately had to be big

enough to get a grip on to start the unravelling of the plaster bandages.

Hope this is of some use.

Kathy and Ethan (mitchells 23/24 - for three more days, yippee, then it's

20/24!)

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I haven't heard of that done but it's seems like a good idea.

Bri

Halley Prestage wrote:

Hello,

At our first casting last week, the doctor took a piece of the red plastic

packaging that the plaster roll came in and wrapped the plaster around it a

couple of times with the red part showing on the ends. This way we can find

the edge of the plaster roll to peel it off. Is this similar to what the

bobble thing is?

Halley

Re: Idea for Soaking Casts

We had the bobbles on his casts and u r right they do work better!!!

Bri

Kathy Bruce wrote:

I don't know if anyone else has heard of this or tried this before but

although our son is now in the boots and bars, when we started treatment at

our first hospital they used to make the end of the plaster bandage into a

bobble (lump) this meant when we came to soak them off it really woulds only

take us about 5 minutes soaking time followed by an unravelling of the

bandage. (Unfortunately if the bandage broke it would be a real nightmare

getting them off after this)

When we changed hospitals as the treatment wasn't getting the correction

we needed they didn't use lumps. (Wierd thing is is that our current

hospital trained the people who we used to see!) It always took so much

longer getting his casts off when the bobbles we'ren't used.

I really don't know if the plaster at the first hospital was different

from our current one but since they were trained by our current hospital I

can't imagine they would use different materials.

It might be worth asking about having the ends made into lumps to help

removal. If you do it's worth me mentioning that lumps on the outside used

to dig in to me when I was breastfeeding Ethan. We found lumps on the inside

of his legs were probably the best and the lumps definately had to be big

enough to get a grip on to start the unravelling of the plaster bandages.

Hope this is of some use.

Kathy and Ethan (mitchells 23/24 - for three more days, yippee, then it's

20/24!)

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