fracture types

Question 1

a “normal fracture”

Answer 1

-simple (inside) or compound (outside)?
-non-displaced or displaced?
-transverse (perpendicular) or oblique (not perpendicular) or commuted (little pieces in between the bone)

Question 2

avulsion

Answer 2

weight lifter who is lifting too much (little piece breaks off)

Question 3

spiral

Answer 3

when your body goes one way, but the bone goes the other

Question 4

compression

Answer 4

jumping off a building; a lot of force on the long axis of the body

Question 5

stress

Answer 5

repeatedly doing actions on the same bones

Question 6

green stick

Answer 6

common in children as the bone is still forming; bendable