How do the saws used to remove casts not break skin?

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When I broke my leg I was given a plaster cast. After a couple of months this was removed at the hospital using a rotatory saw. This sliced through the cast with ease, but I noticed that when it touched my skin, it didn’t hurt at all. How is this possible?

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Chances are that it was actually an oscillating saw even if it had a round blade. Those just swing back and forth a little bit. That makes them good at cutting hard things and bad at cutting soft things.

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