What is Fracture?

A fracture is the medical term for a broken bone. Bone fractures are typical; the normal individual has two while in a life-time. They happen when the physical force applied on the bone is more powerful than the bone by itself. Your risk of fracture relies upon, in part, on your age. Fractured bones are very typical in childhood, though children at hospital with bone injuries are generally less complicated than fractures in adults. As you get older, your bones come to be more brittle and you are more likely to suffer bone injuries from falls that would not occur when you were young.


These are the some types of fractures, but the main types are:
1. displayed
2.non-displaced
3.open
4.closed

Displaced and non-displaced fractures pertain to the way of the bone breaks. In a displaced fracture, the bone snaps into two or more parts and moves so that the two ends are not lined up straight. If the bone is in many pieces, it is called a comminuted fracture. In a non-displaced fracture, the bone cracks either part or all of the way through, but does move and keep its proper alignment.


- Closed-fracture is when the bone damage but there is no cut or openwound in the skin.
- Open fracture is one in which the bone damage by the skin; it may then diminish back into the wound and not be seen through the skin. This is an significant distinction from a closed fracture because with an open fracture there is a possibility of a deep bone infections.


Greenstick fracture -  an incomplete fracture in which the bone is curved. This type occurs most often in children.

Transverse fracture - a break at a right position to the bone's axis.
Oblique fracture - a break in which the crack has a curved or sloped pattern.
Comminuted fracture - a fracture in which the bone pieces into several bits.

Impacted fracture - is one where ends are pushed into each other. This is generally seen in arm fractures in kids and is often known as a buckle fracture. Other varieties of fracture are pathologic fracture, induced by a disease that deteriorates the bones, and stress fracture a hairline crack.
some other types of fracture are pathologic fracture, induced by a disease that deteriorates the bones, and stress fracture.

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