What's the downside of splinting?

[Szunti]

I splint their head, chest and a leg and they run back to fight seemingly without any disadvantage. Plus they can't break it again. I wonder why is it not a thing to splint every marine everywhere before they go into the battle. They are not insects, but looks like the splint-exoskeleton works well. Is there any reason to go back to the Sulaco for a surgery?

[Eenkogneeto]

Slow you down, Dont remove the existing penalty for having the broken bone, still can take damage to the bone and break further, still can get delimbed. I don't know specifically if the various splints do things but I do know that its not particularly worth splinting everything before a fight.

[Karmac]

Okay so, as a Medic I prefer to splint injuries, rather than send you back up for surgery, but that's usually because the damage the breakage is causing you isn't a serious danger just yet, gradually, you will slowly take damage from the breakage, and if you have a broken hand, you'll still drop shit randomly, it's just less likely. It's literally just a dumpster-doc's best friend to get you back in the fight, so Medical can focus on more important things/people.

[Casany]

splinting is fine and dandy but at one point your gonna need surgery to get those bones fixed. A broken head makes your head more succeptable to decaps, arms and hands make you drop stuff randomly, legs make you slower and chest makes you drop stuff and freeze for a second every now and again. It's good for specs during the FOB defense but if nothing's happening surgerys better

[Boltersam]

There are many downsides, because splinting doesn't fix the actual problem, it just prevents it from getting worse by itself. A stray bullet or claw, however, can easily help it along.

[MrJJJ]

I always tend to splint people until they are fucked to the point where they have multiple splints (around 3-4) or are just organ damaged in general.