Orthopaedics
Know the types and symptoms of bone fracture
Bone fracture:
If there is a break in the continuity of a bone, then it is known as bone fracture.A significant percentage of bone fractures occur because of high force impact or stress. A bone fracture is a full or partial break in the continuity of bone tissue.fracture can occur in any bone in the body.
Types:
- Comminuted fracture
- Compression, or crush,fracture
- Fracture dislocation
- Green-stick fracture
- Avulsion fracture
- Hairline fracture
- Impacted fracture
- Intra-articular fracture
- Longitudinal fracture
- Oblique fracture
- Pathological fracture
- Spiral fracture
- Stress fracture
- Transverse fracture
Symptoms:
- Pain
- Swelling
- Bruising
- Discolored skin around the affected area
- Inability to put weight on the injured area
- Inability to move the affected area
- A grating sensation in the affected bone or joint
- Bleeding, if it is an open fracture