Types of Fractures
What type of fracture occurs when your bone is broken perpendicular to its length?
Transverse Fracture
Another name for Bone Spurs
Osteophytes
Hunchback or curve in the spine
Kyphosis
Thoracic Cage
12 pairs of ribs
Your large heel bone is called
calcaneus
A break in a bone resembling a thin line, without splintering, depression, or distortion of bone.
Linear Fracture
Increased activity of osteoclasts cause a break down bone, bones become more fragile.
Osteoporosis
Swayback in your lumbar spine
Lordosis
Collarbones are also known as
Clavicles
Not your carpals your....
tarsals
They happen when one of your bones is broken with a twisting motion.
Spiral Fracture
Name two causes of Osteoporosis
1. Lack of exercise
2. Poor diet
3. Genetics
4. Ethnicity
5. Gender
Severe arthritis in the spine and the vertebrae fuse.
Anklyosis
Which bone in the arm goes to your thumb?
Radius
Your upper jaw bone is called
Maxilla
Occurs when a bone bends and cracks, instead of breaking completely into separate pieces.
Greenstick Fractures
An autoimmune disease which causes joint stiffness and bone deformity
Rheumatoid arthritis
Abnormal curve of the spine
Scoliosis
Your fingers and toes are called
Phalanges
Your shoulder blades are called
Scapulas
A bone that is broken in at least two places. (Shattered)
Comminuted Fractures
Vitaman D deficiency
Rickets
A fragment of the spinal disc that is pushed out of the annulus, into the spinal canal through a tear or rupture in the annulus.
Herniated Disc
Your knee cap
Patella
Name one vertebral column
Cervical
Thoracic
Lumbar
Sacrum and Coccyx