Immune Response
This response occurs immediately after the break, causing heat, swelling, and redness.
What is inflammation?
What is the first thing you do if you break your femur?
What is getting medical help?
This vitamin is important during recovery because it helps the intestines get calcium they need to rebuild the femur.
What is vitamin D?
These white blood cells are the first immune cells that respond to the break.
What are neutrophils?
What is used to keep a broken femur from moving before treatment?
What is a splint?
This exercise is done during recovery to stimulate osteoblasts and strengthen the healing bone.
What is weight bearing exercise?
These immune cells come later and clean up the dead cells.
What are macrophages?
What is a common treatment for a broken femur?
What is a surgery to fix the bone and make it stable?
This medical term is used when the femur fragments fail to heal.
What is a nonunion?
These small messenger proteins are released by immune cells to alarm and boost blood flow.
What are cytokines?
What test does a doctor do to see a broken femur?
What is an x-ray test?
These mobility aids are used to help walk as their femur is healing.
What are crutches?
These are guided by immune signals and they form soft tissue to stabilize the bone before hardening.
What is a callus?
What kind of medical professional treats bone fractures?
What is an orthopedic surgeon?
To speed up recovery, surgeons can use a device that sends ultrasounds to the skin to stimulate blood cells.
What is a bone stimulator?