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Give Your Injury Some CastCoverz! Love This Valentine’s Day (Updated for 2025)

At CastCoverz!®, we live to love! We love our customers and love offering fun and functional cast covers for injured arms and legs. Speaking of “love”, Valentine’s Day is rapidly approaching and we know just how much our customers love themed cast covers, so we decided to highlight CastCoverz! products dedicated to love (our heart designs and/or pink and red solids & prints). There are so many to choose from, we are only showcasing our customers favorites and a few of ours, below. Select the perfect love-themed cover for yourself – or your loved one! Hurry while your size and first design choice are still available (they do sell-out)!

Valentine’s Day SLINGZ! (Designer Arm Slings):

Hearts to You

 Rarin’ to Go Red

 

 Wild at Heart

 

More Valentine’s Day Slingz options:

Berry Pink

Seeing Spots Pink

Minnie Dots

Deep Red with Gold Scrolls

Valentine’s Day Legz! (leg cast covers) Armz! (arm cast covers) and Bootz! (boot covers):

Armz! in Happy Hearts

CastCoverz! Fashion Arm Cast Cover in Happy Hearts

 

Legz! in Happy Hearts

CastCoverz! Fashion Cast Cover for Leg in Happy Hearts

Legz! in Sherbert Love

CastCoverz! Leg Cast Covers

 

More Valentine’s Day Legz! options:

Legz! in Red

Legz! in Neon Pink

Legz! in Rubylicious

 

More Valentine’s Day Armz! options:

Armz! in Red

Armz! in Neon Pink

Armz! in Rubylicious

 

Valentine’s Day SLEEPERZ! (Warm, Cozy, and Soft Cast Covers):

Sleeperz! Arm in Blushing Love

CastCoverz! Sleeperz! Soft Arm Cast Covers in Blushing Love

 

Sleeperz! Leg in Blushing Love

CastCoverz! Sleeperz Soft Leg Cast Cover in Blushing Love

More Valentine’s Day Sleeperz!

Armz! in Red

Armz! in Ribbons of Love

Legz! in Red

Legz! in Ribbons of Love

 

Valentine’s Day Crutchwear (Available in Crutch Cover Set: 2 hand grips and 2 crutch tops and optional [but, oh, so necessary] Crutch Bag):

Hearts to You

CastCoverz! Cruchwear Crutch Accessories Hearts to You

Wild at Heart

CastCoverz! Crutchwear Accessories for Crutches Wild at Heart

 

More Valentine’s Day Crutchwear Options:

Berry Pink

Rarin’ To Go Red

 

Give your injury some CastCoverz! love this February! Our products help your orthopedic device stay clean and dry, prevent snagging and scratching, give you comfort and fashion, and are Made in the USA! What’s not to love?!

Feel Better, Heal Better with Love and CastCoverz!

How to Shovel Snow When Wearing A Boot, Cast, Brace, or While On Crutches

How to Shovel Snow When Wearing A Boot, Cast, Brace, or While On Crutches

Tip #1 DON’T DO IT!
Yep! Shoveling snow while you are not able to properly bear weight is just not a smart thing to do. Seriously! There’s no way to stand and properly balance yourself, or to turn and pivot correctly without ending flat on your face with the great risk of more injury.

Tip #2 Help the Local Economy and Hire Neighborhood Kids
Pay the kids in the neighborhood their going rate to shovel your yard and sidewalk. You’re keeping them out of trouble, they make a little change, and you get to stay snug in your warm home sipping hot apple cider. As an added bonus – you don’t end up having another injury.

Tip #3 Ask for Help
OK, so you may not want the neighborhood kids doing the job (maybe they’re charging a premium for their services!), but you need help. ASK FOR IT. Simple as that! Family, friends, members of your church or community groups. Use them. They can only help if you ask.

Just say no and back away from the shovel (or snow-blower)! As your non-medical broken bone expert and healing advocate, you must trust me on this!  I’ve dealt with a lot of broken bones (my daughter has had 12!) and heard horror stories from our customers who have made the mistake of thinking they could shovel snow while on crutches (try picturing it and the disastrous results). If you are using any kind of orthopedic device (boot, cast, brace, crutches, knee-walker) you are compromised, which means you must take extra care, and sometimes you just can’t do it all.  Shoveling snow is one of those situations.  Your boots, crutches, casts, knee-walkers are not built for traction in the snow.

So, when it comes to shoveling snow while injured, the answer to the question “How do I shovel snow when injured?” is, “Don’t!”

~Annette
Feel Better, Heal Better!

 

Winter Safety Tips with Crutches (Updated for 2025)

Helpful information for anyone on crutches this winter season!

Nursing an injury during winter poses many risks and challenges. Any other season seems awkward enough getting around on crutches, but add snow and ice into the mix and disaster awaits. Of course, precautions and steps can be made to reduce the dangers and possibility of further injuries (and without becoming a hermit).

Crutches are going to be dangerous no matter what, but here are 5 safety tips to help you handle the winter months on crutches:

  1. Keep Crutches in Good Working Condition

In order to make sure crutches are as stable as possible, you will want them to be in the best possible working order. Even at the slightest show of wear, get new tips. New tips will help prevent sliding on the snow and ice. Since the tips grip the ground, a little wear can cause an accident. You can also purchase ice grip tips to help get even better traction on snow and ice. Also, make sure the crutches are adjusted to fit you perfectly so you can walk upright as comfortably and slowly as possible.

  1. Use Sand or Salt

Keep some sidewalk salt or sand in your car with you at all times. Whenever you have to get out somewhere that looks slippery spread a little sand or salt right outside your car door so you can get your crutches and steady yourself as safe as possible. You will want to keep your driveway and sidewalks salted as well, but when you have no control over the street conditions, keep that salt and sand handy to do the best at keeping yourself safe.

  1. Alternatives to Crutches

No matter how well you do on crutches, they still pose a risk when used in the winter. The Seated Scooter, for example, is a wheeled device that allows you to sit and scoot yourself from place to place while keeping your bad leg elevated and out of the way. You will remain stable at all times in the seated position and you don’t have to worry about slipping at all. The Knee Scooter works much the same way, only you stand and place the knee of your bad leg on the padded area. You have handlebars to keep you stable and a basket to carry your keys and other items. Even The Hands-Free Crutch is a better option than crutches. This device attaches to your bad leg and allows you to walk much like normal while retaining the use of your hands. Having your hands available to balance you is never a bad thing in the winter.

  1. Ask for Help

Independence is important, but when it comes to your safety, sometimes you have to do what you have to do. Ask friends and family members to run some of your errands for you so you don’t have to venture out into the cold, icy weather. When you do go out, try to have someone meet you at your car to help usher you inside safely. Having one injury is bad enough; you don’t want to add another to it.

  1. Think of Comfort

In order to advance your recovery, you need to think of your comfort, as well as your safety. Things like cold toes can not only be uncomfortable and irritating, but also dangerous in colder temperatures.  CastCoverz! Sleeperz! for leg casts (arm casts too!) and  Sleeping Bagz! for boots are made from soft fleece to keep your toes warm and cozy, while protecting your sheets from snags and cooties, too!  Be sure to check out our Bootz! and BootGuardzXtreme! to keep your toes & boots protected from the elements and clean while wearing a walking boot out in snowy and rainy conditions. Think through other comfort levels and research what you can do to fix them during the winter months.

Safety must be a high priority for you while you recover. And while safety should always be at the forefront, winter creates more obstacles to consider (and are often overlooked). Think ahead and use these tips to get yourself to the other side of the season safely, on crutches.

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How To Celebrate Super Bowl Sunday With A Broken Bone

One of the world’s favorite days of the year is here; Super Bowl Sunday.  All fans have one thing in common, and that’s looking forward to the Super Bowl for the entirety of their season in hopes of seeing their favorite team play in the ultimate championship game (not to mention all the amazing commercials and Halftime show). 

If you’re injured on Super Bowl Sunday, you can still participate, but make sure you don’t celebrate too hard and injure yourself further! CastCoverz! has a few tricks up our sleeves to make sure you optimize your Super Bowl Sunday experience, in a cast, orthotic walking boot, sling, or crutches. 

Team Pride

No matter what team you’re going for this Super Bowl, we have the right CastCoverz! for you. This Armz! In 24 Karat (perfect for a wrist or arm cast) is also available in Bootz! and Legz!.

 

 

Show off your team pride during the Super Bowl with this Legz! In Bengalicious to cover your leg cast. Also available in Armz! And Bootz!

 

 

Champagne Shower Deterrent 

If you’re worried about getting the winning team’s champagne shower on your dry cast, we have a solution for you! Our Mittz! Dry in Black is the perfect solution to protecting your fingers and keeping your hand cast, splint or brace dry from wet conditions.

 

 

We’d love to see how you celebrate in your CastCoverz! Comment more family friendly ideas for how to celebrate on Super Bowl Sunday with an injury.