An orthopedic physician pulls apart the protective cotton lining inside the plaster cast that supported the broken ankle of a Caucasian woman while the fractured bone in her left leg was healing. Initially the plaster was perforated with a special electric-powered cast saw with an oscillating blade that vibrates instead of spinning, which prevents it from cutting the skin. The oscillating saw was patented for medical use in 1945 by an American orthopaedic surgeon, Dr. Homer Stryker, and is still the most common cast-cutting saw in use today.
An orthopedic physician pulls apart the protective cotton lining inside the plaster cast that supported the broken ankle of a Caucasian woman while the fractured bone in her left leg was healing. Initially the plaster was perforated with a special electric-powered cast saw with an oscillating blade that vibrates instead of spinning, which prevents it from cutting the skin. The oscillating saw was patented for medical use in 1945 by an American orthopaedic surgeon, Dr. Homer Stryker, and is still the most common cast-cutting saw in use today.
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