Types of Fractures
What fracture penetrates the skin?
Open compound fracture
What fracture is caused by fist fights or hitting a hard object?
Boxer fracture
When your joint is degenerating how many levels are there before you have to get a replacement?
3 levels
There are 3 grades of an injury. True or False?
True
What part of the long bone gives the bone length?
The diaphysis
What is the most common type of fracture?
Hair line fracture
What is went backwards when a Colles' fracture occurs?
End of the radius
How many Americans get Osteoarthritis?
27 million
Which grade of an injury is the most traumatic?
The 3rd grade
What is the outer shell of a bone called?
Periosteum
What fracture is caused by repeated trauma?
Stress fracture
What fracture affects the fifth metatarsal bone in your foot?
Jones fracture
Which level is it when cartilage is roughed up?
Chondromalicia
Which grade affects less than 5% of muscle fibers?
The first grade
What is another name for a growth plate?
Epiphyseal line
What type of fracture causes a bone to break into multiple pieces?
Multifragmentary fracture
What happens during a Lisfranc fracture?
One or more metatarsal bones are displaced from the tarsus
Explain what happens to the cartilage in Osteochondritis Dissecans?
It starts to rip off and it becomes loose bodies
Jonny had to go to the hospital and he was told that he ruptured a tendon in his knee. Which grade is that?
The 3rd grade
What is the main job of the nutrient artery?
Carries nutrients and oxygen into the bone
What happens to the bones in a greenstick fracture?
One side of the bone is broken and the other is only bent
Jonny got into a car crash and the top of his leg hurts, what might be wrong with his leg?
Femur fracture
Jonny got an x-ray and it showed a bone grinding on another bone, what does this show?
Jonny has osteoarthritis
Jonny learned that he partially tore his A.C.L, a grade 2 injury, from playing soccer. About how long would his recovery take?
3 months
What job does the medullary cavity do?
To produce red blood cells and yellow marrow {fat cells}