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
"I've never experienced such terrible pain in my life. I made a splint and crutches out of wood," he writes.
From BBC • May 18, 2026
Betts visited a hand specialist Monday, where he was fitted with a splint.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 17, 2024
The shelter found specialists in Iowa who were able to splint Lola-Pearl’s legs as an attempt to save them, but they decided her left hind leg needed to be amputated.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 20, 2023
He called it Branch, named for the small tree part he had used to splint its damaged tail.
From "Gathering Blue" by Lois Lowry
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