Health blog Category: fractures
What is a Fracture?
Simply put, a fracture is the medical term for a break in a bone within the body. There are many different classifications of a fracture and each one has its own characteristics and healing time. Being told that you have a fracture can be a scary thing, but knowledge is power! Read below to learn about the different types of fractures and what to expect as you recover.
Types of fractures:
Overall classification of break
- Displaced: Bone breaks and moves out of place
- Non-Displaced: Bone breaks but does not move out of place
- Closed: Bone does not break through the skin
- Open: Bone breaks through the skin
Patterns of fractures:
Ways in which the bone can break
- Avulsion: A piece of bone breaks off
- Comminuted: Bone breaks into many pieces
- Greenstick: the bone bends but does not break completely (common in children)
- Spiral: The bone was twisted to create the break
- Stress: A small fracture in the bone (hairline)
How long will it take to heal?
Read full blogWe Don’t Have to Live With Hand, Wrist, or Elbow Pain
Hand, wrist, and elbow injuries are common among the population and have probably affected everyone at one point or another. Some of the most common issues we may have or will experience throughout the elbow, wrist and hand include:
- Tennis elbow
- Carpal tunnel
- De Quervain’s tendonitis
- Wrist fractures
So what can causes these various conditions and what symptoms come with them?
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Fractures, and How To Treat Them
You may have had a fracture or know some who has fractured their bone. But how serious can fractures be?
Well let’s start with determining what exactly a fracture is.
The word, ‘fracture’ is a medical term that refers to a crack or break in a bone. Bones are made of calcified materials, which give them their hard rigid structure.
Serious fractures can have dangerous complications if not treated promptly.
Taking Care of a Fracture
What is a fracture? The word, ‘fracture’ is a medical term that refers to a crack or break in a bone. Bones are made of calcified materials, which give them their hard rigid structure.
There are several types of fractures:
- Greenstick- when a bone is bent, but not broken all the way through.
- A buckle fracture results from compression of two bones driven into each other.
- A growth plate fracture occurs at the joint and can result in shorter bone length.