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Fracture facts

  • Bone fracture, broken bone, bone crack all mean he same thing. The bone has been damaged such that. None of these terms indicate the severity of the bone damage.
  • Bones are the body's storage place for calcium. Under hormone control, calcium content of bone is constantly increasing or decreasing.
  • Bones break when they cannot withstand a force or trauma applied to them. Sometimes the bones are so weak that force may be just gravity, like compression fractures of the back in the elderly.
  • Fracture descriptions help explain how the breakage appears. For examples, whether or not the fragments are aligned (displaced fracture) and whether or not there is skin overlying the injury is damaged (compound fracture).
  • Fractures may be complicated by damage to nearby blood vessels, nerves and muscles and joints.
  • Children's fractures may be more difficult to diagnose because their bones lack ...

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