Essay On Bone Fracture

One out five people will suffer some types of fracture such as Alex, who is accidentally pushed by one of his friends now Alex lies in pain and bleeding because a bone has popped out of his leg this called compound fracture. What is a fracture? The word fracture means broken bone this occurred when the bone snaps into two or bone snaps into several pieces due to excessive force. There is different way a fracture can occur, for instance small children are risk of developing fractures due to weak bone because children has lack of calcification and women with menopause develop a condition called osteoporosis due to bone becomes fragile because of elderly age . There are several types of fracture greenstick fracture, transverse fracture, comminuted fracture, impacted fracture, compound fracture, Pathological fracture, oblique fracture, and many more types of fracture. Greenstick fracture is when the bone cracked one side, however doesn’t completes break. Transverse fracture is when the bone break, straight cross, comminuted fracture is when the bone shattered into pieces,
A fracture can take a week or several months to heal based on the types of fracture. A person should clean the fracture site to prevent infection and covered the broken bone so that it may heal properly in the casts and use minimum muscle movement while the injured body part is healing. A person should wait to do normal activities until the bone completes heal. The risk of fracture is very high due to complications that can occur during the healing process for example broken bone can heal in the wrong place, a second problem if a child suffers from a fracture they are at risk of developing disruption of bone growth, which cause abnormal grown deformity, the third problem is the broken bone lose its ability to supply blood so the bone become decrease this called avascular