Review of various fractures and bone injuries
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| What is a frature? | It is a disruption in the continuity of a bone
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| Describe a "greenstick" fracture. | A common fracture in children where the bone breaks incompletely.
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| Describe a "sprial" fracture. | A ragged break that occurs when excessive twisting forces are applied to a bone.
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| Describe an "impacted" fracture. | When broken bone ends are forced into each other.
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| Describe a "comminuted" fracture. | When a bone is broken completely and into many pieces.
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| Describe a "fissured" fracture. | When a bone undergoes an incomplete and longitudinal break.
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| Describe a "transverse" fracture. | A complete break in the bone that occurs at a right angle to the axis of the bone.
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| Describe an "oblique" fracture. | A complete break in the bone that occurs at an angle other than a right angle to the axis of the bone.
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| What is a "simple" fracture? | When a bone sustains a break and does NOT protrude through the soft tissues of the integuemtary system.
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| What is a "compound" fracture? | When a bone breaks or sustains an injury and one or both ends of the bone protrude through the skin.
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| What is a "stress" fracture? | Microdamage due to repeated loading of low magnitude forces on the bone.
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| What is a "stress reaction"? | Any increase in magnitude or frequency of bone loading.
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| What is "osteochondrosis"? | When an injury to the bone involves disruption of blood supply to an epiphysis of a bone.
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