MEDOP 230- Orthopedics: Fractures
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| Stress fractures | caused by force or torsion during a sport or activity.
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| Pathologic fractures | caused by a disease process like osteoporosis.
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| Some fractures: | are categorized by how the bone breaks.
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| No matter the cause of fracture, if the bone heals without treatment it may show: | malunion or malalignment.
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| Open Fracture | open fracture does tear through the skin.
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| Closed Fracture | closed fracture does not tear through the skin
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| Nondisplaced fracture | nondisplaced fracture remains in normal anatomical alignment
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| Displaced Fracture | displaced fracture moves out of normal anatomical alignment.
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| Colles' | distal radius broken by falling onto an outstretched hand
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| Comminuted | Bone is crushed into several small pieces
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| Compression | vertebrae are compressed together when a person falls onto buttocks or collapses on itself
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| Depressed | cranium is fractured inwards to the brain
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| Greenstick | bone is broken on one side; occurs in children due to flexible cartilage
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| Hairline | very thin fracture line with the pieces still together; difficult to detect
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| Oblique | broken in an oblique angle
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| Spiral | broken in a spiral manner with a twisting force
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| Transverse | broken in a transverse plan perpendicular to its long axis
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