Encasing your leg in plaster when you haven't broken any bones may seema strange thing to do, but that's what Alison Price did. As a hospitalplay specialist in the children's outpatient unit at Queen's MedicalCentre in Nottingham, Price wanted to get a better insight into howpatients feel when they come to visit the fracture clinic. The processof removing her cast has now been immortalised in a picture story book,which she shows to children who are waiting at the clinic to get theirown casts removed.
It is, she says, a useful tool that helps to allay the anxiety felt bymany children about the procedure. For instance, the noise made by thesaw used to cut open their cast can be distressing for the childrenwaiting their turn. "The saw is extremely loud, it sounds like thebuilders are in," explains Price.
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