Ch 32 Musculoskeletal Trauma

Question 1

The portions of the skeleton that include the clavicles, scapulae, arms, wrists, and hands, and the pelvis, thighs, legs, ankles, and feet

Answer 1

Extremities

Question 2

Hard but flexible living structures that provide support for the body and protection to vital organs

Answer 2

Bones

Question 3

Places where bones articulate, or meet

Answer 3

Joints

Question 4

Tissues or fibers that cause movement of body parts and organs

Answer 4

Muscles

Question 5

Tough tissue that covers the joint ends of bones and helps to form certain body parts, such as the ear

Answer 5

Cartilage

Question 6

Tissues that connect muscle to bone

Answer 6

Tendons

Question 7

Tissues that connect bone to bone

Answer 7

Ligaments

Question 8

A splint that applies constant pull along the length of a lower extremity to help stabilize the fractured bone and to reduce muscle spasm in the limb, used primarily on femoral shaft fractures

Answer 8

Traction splint

Question 9

Any break in a bone

Answer 9

Fracture

Question 10

A fracture in which the bone is broken in several places

Answer 10

Comminuted fracture

Question 11

An incomplete fracture

Answer 11

Greenstick fracture

Question 12

A fracture in which the broken bone segments are at an angle to each other

Answer 12

Angulated fracture

Question 13

The disruption or “coming apart” of a joint

Answer 13

Dislocation

Question 14

The stretching and tearing of ligaments

Answer 14

Sprain

Question 15

Muscle injury resulting from overstretching or overexertion of the muscle

Answer 15

Strain

Question 16

An injury to an extremity with no associated opening in the skin

Answer 16

Closed extremity injury

Question 17

An extremity injury in which the skin has been broken or torn through from the inside by an injured bone, or from the outside by something that has caused a penetrating wound with associated injury to the bone

Answer 17

Open extremity injury

Question 18

Injury caused when tissues such as blood vessels and nerves are constricted within a space, as from swelling or from a tight dressing or cast

Answer 18

Compartment syndrome

Question 19

A grating sensation or sound made when fractured bone ends rub together

Answer 19

Crepitus

Question 20

The process of applying tension to straighten and realign a fractured limb before splinting

Answer 20

Manual traction (aka tension)