Sask. boy hopes to ease others' pain with splint kit donation

Carter Brown has broken 20 bones in his lifetime. He's 11 years old.

The Milestone, Sask. boy hasosteogenesis imperfecta, also known as brittle bone disease. He and his mother are now helping others with the disease with The Splint Kit Project.

"I just know how much pain it is to have a fracture, and I don't want too many people to have as much pain as I did," Brown saidin an interview with CBC Radio One's The Afternoon Edition.

"Once you get [the splint] on it immediately feels much better."

People with brittle bone diseasesuffer broken bones more easily than normal. Most people who have it areborn with it and there is a strong genetic link.

Going the distance

With the help of his mother, Jennifer, Carter created 350 kits to give away to patients at the Shriners Hospital for Children in Montreal.

• What Puts the Bend in Bone

The two travelled there the week of March5 to deliver the kits.

Each kit includes necessary materials and a guide that showsusers howto stabilize a fracture almost anywhere.

If applied properly, the splint can often be left on throughout the healing process and could even save a trip to the emergency room. The family raised funds to make theproject possible.