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
In an interview for Saga magazine, he revealed he was still recovering from the experience, with his neck in a brace and right hand in a splint.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2024
An X-ray found no fractures or vascular injuries in her hand, which was put in a finger splint.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2024
The eagle’s left wing was fractured and needed a splint.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 5, 2024
Her leg was wrapped up in some sort of splint.
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
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
Midfielder Rice saw a social media post of Ronnie's splints and invited the youngster to join him on the pitch.
From BBC ● Feb. 12, 2023
The first responders used soft splints to put pressure on injured extremities and stabilize them, he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 17, 2022
Apparently he is pleased at my self-control, for he now sets my leg carefully in splints and says: “To-morrow you’ll be off home.”
From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque
“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
Her legs were never given tourniquets or splinted.
From BBC ● Mar. 6, 2022
Urshela’s bat splinted when he grounded into a double play in the second inning.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 19, 2021
I gave her everything she asked for out of her satchel, and soon she had the arm splinted.
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
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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