Ingenous splint

The topic of the "reading for comprehension" lesson I was working on with three fifth graders was "Our Marvelous Body." I asked the three students with whom I was working if they had ever had a broken bone? C. said "Yes, I broke my wrist." Then I asked if she'd had a cast on her arm. She said "No, we laid chopsticks on my arm and wrapped it with cloth to keep it from moving." It must have worked because her arm is fine now. Perhaps that's what you do when you don't have medical insurance.