Engineering Students Create Waterproof and Lightweight Arm Cast with Aim to Replace Plaster Casts

Approximately six million people break a bone every year in the United States [1]. There’s a good chance you know someone personally who has broken a bone – maybe that person is you.

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Regardless of whether or not it’s a simple stress fracture or a full-blown break, breaking a bone is painful, and the recovery process is uncomfortable, long, and inconvenient. In many cases, you end up having to wear an itchy, cumbersome cast and are forced to alter your daily activities to accommodate it.

Thankfully, there are some engineering students in Chicago who believe that recovering from a broken bone does not have to be worse than the break itself.