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| break in continuity of bone |
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| bone is broken all the way through |
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| bone is damaged but still in one piece |
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| bone breaks into 2 or more fragments |
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| fracture runs parallel to long axis of bone |
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| fracture occurs at 45 degrees angle to shaft |
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| fracutre that circles the bone |
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| fracture occurs straight across bone |
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| perforates one cortex and splinters spongy bone |
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| cortex buckles but doesn't break |
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occur when longitudinal force is applied
bone bends under force |
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occurs in bone subjected to repeated stress (athletes)
fatigue and insufficiency |
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| abnormal stress applied to bone with normal ability to deform and recover |
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stress fractures occuring in bones lacking normal ability to deform and recover
Ex: rheumatoid arthritis, Paget disease, osteomalacia |
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| Transchondral (osteochondritis dissecans) |
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| fragmentation and separation of articular cartilage that covers ends of bones at joint |
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displacement of a bone from a joint
most common: finger, thumb, shoulder
less common: mandible, elbow, knee, hip |
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| loss of motion, temporary paralysis of involved joint, pain and swelling, sometimes shock |
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incomplete or partial dislocation
contact between two bone surfaces is only partially lost |
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tear in tendon
most frequently injured are tendons of hands, feet, knee, upper arm, thigh, ankle, and heel |
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tear in a ligament
most common at wrist, ankle elbow and knee joints |
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| complete subluxation of tendon or ligament from its bony attachment site |
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| Strain, Sprain, Avulsion Symptoms |
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| pain, soft tissue swelling, changes in tendon or ligament contour, dislocation/subluxation of bones, inability to perform some movements |
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| local muscle damage usually seen after traumatic or sports injuries |
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| What's the complication of muscle strains? |
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| myositis ossificans (scar tissue calcification and then ossification) |
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| Myoglobinuria (rhabdomyolysis) |
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release of myoglobin after muscle damage
crush syndrome and compartment syndrome are forms |
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increased porosity of bones
makes bone abnormally fragile |
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| softening or decalcification of bone in adults |
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| Page disease (osteitis deformans) |
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| overproduction of bone, particularily of skull. vertebrae, and pelvis |
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inflammation of bone, localized or generalized, due to pyogenic infection
may result in bone destruction, stiffening of joints if infection spreadsto joints, and in extreme cases, in the shortening of a limb if growth center is destroyed |
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infection that enters from outside the body
spreads from soft tissue into bone |
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| Hematogenous osteomyelitis |
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caused by pathogens carried in blood from sites of infection within the body
spreads from bone outward to adjacent soft tissues |
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| Signs and Symptoms of osteomyelitis |
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| leukocytosis, tenderness, swelling, and redness of the skin over the bone involved, and bacteremia |
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