THE MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM: FRACTURES

Chista TatarBIO 120

Professor Abdullah

SKELETAL SYSTEM

The skeletal system is the internal framework of the body. There are 206 bones in the human body.

COMMON BONE FRACTURES

COLLES FRACTURE(COL-eez)

A Colles wrist fracture is a break in your forearm just behind your wrist. It is

caused by falling forward onto an outstretched arm snapping the end of

the radial forearm bone. The break itself itself is sometimes called a 'dinner fork' fracture because it resembles the curve

of a fork A.

COMMINUTED FRACTURE

shattered

splitered

or crushed into many small piees or fragments

Fracture in which bone can be:

(kom-ih-NYOOT-ed)

COMPRESSION FRACTURE

A compression fracture is a fracture where the height of the body is shortened due to trauma. In older people, mainly women, such fractures are mostly a result of osteoporosis.

WORKS CITED

http://www.doctorsecrets.com/your-bones/colles-fracture.htm

http://www.merck.com/mmpe/sec21/ch309/ch309b.html

http://health.allrefer.com/health/bone-fracture-repair-fracture-types-1.html

http://www.eorthopod.com/content/spinal-compression-fractures