To maximize benefits while minimizing complications, the use of casts and splints is generally limited to the short term. Excessive immobilization from continuous use of a cast or splint can lead to chronic pain, joint stiffness, muscle atrophy, or more severe complications (e.g., complex regional pain syndrome).
Energy Department: Fracking doesnât contaminate groundwater. In this March 29, 2013 photo, technicians inside a trailer direct the pressure and mix of water and chemicals pumped into an Encana Oil & Gas (USA) Inc. well during hydraulic fracturing, outside Rifle, in western Colorado.
Fracking doesn't contaminate water supplies, faulty shale gas wells do. Leaks from faulty shale gas and oil wells have contaminated water supplies, but fracking itself is not to blame, scientists say. The film Gaslands showed residents near fracking sites who were able to set alight to the water from their taps, apparently due to methane contamination. By Emily Gosden, Energy Editor.