Three types of bone fracture . What causes fractures? Fracture treatment and repair

1. Bone Fracture
• A break in a bone .

2. What causes fractures?
• Excessive force applied to your bone
causes it to break or shatter.

3. Three types of bone fracture
• Comminuted fractures
• Greenstick fractures
• Spiral fractures

4. 1.Comminuted fractures
• Bone fragment into
three or more pieces

5. 2. Greenstick fractures
• Bone breaks
incompletely, much
a green in the way
twig breaks. Only
one side of the
shaft breaks; the
other side bends

6. 3. Spiral fractures
• Ragged break occurs
when excessive
twisting forces are
applied to a bone.

7. Fracture treatment and repair
1. Treatment
• Reduction:
1. Realignment of broken bone ends
2. Closed reduction- physician manipulates to
correct position
3. Open reduction- surgical pins or wires
secure ends

8. Treatment
• Immobilization by cast or traction for healing
• Depends on break severity, bone broken, and age
of patient

9. Stage of bone repair: hematoma form
• Torn blood vessels hemorrhage
• Clot ( hematoma) forms
• Site swollen painful, and inflamed