Fractures

Question 1

What is the tissue called during the healing process of a fracture?

Answer 1

A callus

Question 2

After a bone is broken the area swells with _______.

Answer 2

Blood. This blood brings about an inflammatory response, fibrous tissue to accumulate and initiates healing

Question 3

______ will deposit calcium and completes the healing process after a bone break.

Answer 3

Osteoblasts

Question 4

What is a break at right angles to the long plane of the bone?

Answer 4

Transverse Fracture

Question 5

What is a type of complete fracture which occurs due to a rotational or twisting force? Can be known as a torsion fracture.

Answer 5

Spiral Fracture

Question 6

What kind of fracture is it when one thin line with no additional lines splintering from it?

Answer 6

Linear Fracture

Question 7

What kind of fracture is it when the bone snaps into two or more parts?

Answer 7

Oblique Fracture

Question 8

What kind of fracture is it when the bone cracks either part or all of the way but maintained alignment?

Answer 8

Oblique Non-Displaced

Question 9

What kind of fracture is it when it is an incomplete fracture, usually in children because their bones are soft?

Answer 9

Greenstick

Question 10

What kind of fracture is it when it is a break or splinter of the bone into two or more fragments?

Answer 10

Comminuted

Question 11

What kind of fracture is it when a small chunk of bone attached to a tendon or ligament gets pulled away from the main part of the bone?

Answer 11

Avulsion Fracture

Question 12

What kind of fracture is it when the lateral malleolus, the medial malleolus and the distal posterior aspect of the tibia? It is sometimes accompanied by ligament damage and dislocation.

Answer 12

Trimalleolar Frcature

Question 13

What kind of fracture is it when the proximal third of the ulna with dislocation of the proximal head of the radius?

Answer 13

Monteggia Fracture

Question 14

What kind of fracture is it when partial dislocation of the ankle, with fracturing of the fibula within 6-7 cm above the lateral malleolus and rupture of the distal tibiofibular ligaments of the ankle?

Answer 14

Pott’s Fracture

Question 15

What kind of fracture occurs from spinal injury usually from a high energy impact? IE. Diving into a pool

Answer 15

Burst Fracture

Question 16

What kind of fracture occurs when one or more bones in the spine weaken and crumple?

Answer 16

Compression Fracture

Question 17

What kind of fracture is specific to the patella, fracture lines radiate out from a center point in a star-like pattern?

Answer 17

Stellate Fracture

Question 18

What kind of fracture occurs when the broken ends of the bone are jammed together by the force of the injury?

Answer 18

Impacted Fracture

Question 19

What kind of fracture of the distal 1/3 of one the metatarsal, usually the 2nd or 3rd because of recumbent stress? EI. Marching

Answer 19

March Fracture

Question 20

There are ___ main types of Skull Fractures.

Answer 20

4

Question 21

What kind of fracture is a deformity of the orbital floor of the medial wall resulting from impact? Creating a tear drop pattern

Answer 21

Blowout Fracture of the Orbit

Question 22

What is the most common skeletal manifestation caused by disease?

Answer 22

Fracture

Question 23

What is the lack of osteoblasts and poor collagen formation cause weak bones that easily fracture?

Answer 23

Osteogenesis Imperfecta “ Brittle Bone Disease”

Question 24

What is a disease in which the density and quality of bone are reduced so the risk of fracture is increased?

Answer 24

Osteoporosis

Question 25

What is the softening of the bone caused by severe vitamin D deficiencies?

Answer 25

Osteomalacia

Question 26

What is the disease that interferes with your bodies normal recycling process. in which, new bone tissue gradually replaces old tissue? Commonly occurs in the pelvis, skull, spine and legs.

Answer 26

Paget’s Disease