intro to orthopedic injury Flashcards
What is a primary injury?
injury that results directly from the initial, immediate trauma associated with a particular mechanism of insult
What does direct or extrinsic injury mean?
trauma that occurs at apoint of impact where the foce meets the body
What does indirect of intrinsic injury mean?
a force meets the body in such a way that energy is transmitted to another part of the body.
Example of an indirect/intrinsic injury?
dislocated shoulder from falling on outstreatched hand.
What can cause an overuse injury?
acute repetitive friction or chronic repetitive microtrauma
What is a secondary injury?
additional injury that is a result of the primay injury
What are the two types of secondary injury?
secondary enzymatic and secondary hypotoxic
What does a short term secondary injury result from?
sequelae of injury if not managed properly.
What does short term secondary injury affect?
uninjured cells on periphery of primary lesion.
What does long term secondary injury lead to?
degenerative conditons, increases quanity of tissue damage and healing time
What is secondary enxymatic injury
when lysosomes release enzymes damaging surrounding cells causing cell death
What is secondary hypoxic/eschemic injury?
failure of vasculature to supply enough blood maybe from vascular and inflammatory changes that cause hypoxia.
What type of metabolism can happen in hypoxic injury?
a shift to anaerobic metabolism occures eventually leading to inability to produce enough ATP.
What happens to cells subject to hypoxic injury?
less atp means failure of ion pumps then swelling and cell death! Very importaint
What three physiological problems does ischemia cause?
hypoxia, inadequate supply of nutrients and inadequate removal of waste
what could cause ischemia?
damaged blood vessesl, clotting, inflammation, pressure, pain, swelling of injured cells.
What is tension?
a force that pulls tissues, tendon injuries.
Compression
forcefull blow to tissues
Example of compression injury?
contusion, fracture
Example of a tension injury
strain, cramp
What is shearing injury
force that moves parallel to the tissues
Example of shearing injury?
vertebral disk injury
What is torsion?
twisting or turning force, ends twist in opposite directions